[180849] in North American Network Operators' Group
Nobody is looking for serious candidates
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lyndon Nerenberg)
Thu Jun 11 00:31:47 2015
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
From: Lyndon Nerenberg <lyndon@orthanc.ca>
Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2015 21:31:39 -0700
To: "North American Network Operators' Group" <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <557902FD.7090107@satchell.net>
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On Jun 10, 2015, at 8:39 PM, Stephen Satchell <list@satchell.net> wrote:
> After the phone screen, the company called me in for the face-to-face =
"interview". I put the word "interview" in quotes because, for 25 =
minutes, the chief programmer of the place played a video game he wrote. =
That was the extent of the interview!
Mmm hmm. E.g. I spent half+ an hour being grilled on the internals and =
efficiencies of various regular expression library implementations. =
'[a-z]' vs. '[:islower:]' or something equally irrelevant to the =
interview at hand, for a position creating/managing the kernel - not =
apps - for an email spam filtering appliance. The second half hour =
devolved into a rant by the interviewer about 'volatile' in whatever was =
the latest version of the ANSI C standard.
You can have a lot of fun, though, by playing the interviewers. When =
you discover your interest in the company is a noop, steering things =
into the Brazil regime can generate endless entertainment ;-)
In fact, fishing for silliness can produce plenty of results.
--lyndon
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