I used to care much more. I used to try to help them. Try
to make them feel good. But I can talk and talk, explain
and explain, in the end we won’t hire you if you can’t
reverse a linked list, or do a case-insensitive string
comparison. I have done this so many times, I'm terribly
frustrated about this. So now if you fuck up here, I’ll
just let you talk for 20 minutes, say “uh huh” once in a
while and review code in the meantime. And then I’ll ask
you about “your most interesting project so far” or some
bullshit like that.
...you will have 3 interviews of 45 minutes, lunch, and 2
more interviews. These are basically the same as phone
screens, but you get to see the interviewers face to face.
If you totally suck, they sometimes walk you out after
lunch, and skip the last two interviews.
...the interviewer would rather stab himself than hear you
fail again. So he lets you tell a story while he zones
out. In his rating, he will give you the lowest possible
score, and this will end the interview process for you.
Gee, you guize! Oh noes, scarey people is
doing bad, bad tings, and let's all worry now!
Police no can help! Meesuh gonna die now???
"...AND NO ONE KNOWS WHAT IT IS!"
Catastrophic decompression is not to be trifled with.