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The shortest, strangest engineering interview I've ever done

by bluepnume on 8/16/24, 4:12 AM with 9 comments

• by bluepnume on 8/16/24, 4:33 AM

  Would absolutely love to know how other engineers on HN approach interviews and assessing technical competence. I didn't _think_ I had any mis-steps here but would love to know if anyone thinks there's something I could have fixed about this whole interviewing process.

  Probably the guy was just having a bad week, but all the same. Really bemused (and more than a little confused)

• by wildlingjill on 8/16/24, 4:37 AM

  That guy was way out of line, even if he didn't want to work for you there was no need to act so unprofessional.

• by theGeatZhopa on 8/16/24, 7:09 AM

  That's awful and unfriendly. That guy has to hide something otherwise he would not attack you and your process. May be he's pissed off the world. That's a big reason to hang up on him.

• by ezekg on 8/16/24, 3:15 PM

  Related: I recently tried to hire for a FE role and the number of candidates that got upset at me for "passing" was astounding. Even soft-passes. Like, I liked a few of them and put their GH in a note file for if I ever needed to hire more later, but man -- immediately deleted some of these candidates from my list after receiving angry emails. I get some people are stressed about being OOW for awhile, but man... be professional. If you're mad you didn't get chosen and feel the need to lash out, just go for a walk and don't burn the bridge.

  I totally get the "what the fuck did I do?" bit.

• by up-n-atom on 8/16/24, 8:13 AM

  Looks like you somehow signed up for the IRL equivalent of the roast meta and kudos for taking it in stride.

• by smanikonda on 8/16/24, 5:16 AM

  that boy tweaking