I am glad someone beat me to posting this. This is exactly how I have felt at almost every interview since I got my first hourly job two decades ago. I’m not sure if my laughter was genuine or just to suppress the tears. :P
Nothing beats the time we arrived for what we though was a meeting with potential partners and what they thought was a job candidate screening. The attitude mismatch was hilarious.
Not sure I could come up with that on a whiteboard though! I must admit
it’s been brewing for a while and I had to consult xargs and sed
man pages. Anyhow, it seems to work.
I am glad someone beat me to posting this. This is exactly how I have felt at almost every interview since I got my first hourly job two decades ago. I’m not sure if my laughter was genuine or just to suppress the tears. :P
I love being a douche canoe to lousy interviewers, so my laugh would be 100% genuine.
Nothing beats the time we arrived for what we though was a meeting with potential partners and what they thought was a job candidate screening. The attitude mismatch was hilarious.
I’d be curious to hear examples. That does sound hilarious.
Reviving this thread because somebody linked me to another very creative solution. :)
https://gist.github.com/natw/4079502
Here’s my own (rather inefficient) solution:
Not sure I could come up with that on a whiteboard though! I must admit it’s been brewing for a while and I had to consult xargs and sed man pages. Anyhow, it seems to work.