SWE interview sprung on me when I thought I was coming in for a final offer discussion at a very small startup. Two 1hr interviews with questions where they apparently didn't realize their own answers were wrong, one refused to be corrected. I told their child CEO about it as I declined and left.
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Luke O'Neil
@lukeoneil47.bsky.social
The funniest part the guy said was driving home
after the game and seeing someone hopping a cemetery
fence with a bottle of champagne.
October 27, 2004
Across the street some kids were playing baseball which
felt anachronistic in the first place and one of them
socked a big dinger and they all moved instinctively and
anxiously like they do when that sort of thing happens.
I watched the ball arc up toward the moon which
wasn’t out yet but you could tell was waiting there just
backstage rehearsing its lines and I thought people that
young are walking on a tightrope they aren’t even aware
of yet. Not just unafraid of falling but oblivious to the
existence of the chasm.
I was listening to In the Aeroplane Over the Sea I’m
sorry I know and I thought that if you skip “[untitled]”
you didn’t earn “Two-Headed Boy Pt. 2” because in
my day we suffered differently about things that didn’t
matter.
I never knew if it was meant to be I love you comma
Jesus Christ or if it was supposed to be I love you Jesus
Christ straight through no punctuation like was he
addressing some person or the Son of God himself.
Jesus Christ I love you yes I do.
On my phone there was a grim dark storm cloud
hovering over Rhode Island and the blackness looked
like it had one little arm or flipper hanging down to do
its damage with like a perverted little sky imp would
have and there were two bright orange lights right in
ALT
the center where the storm’s face would be if storms
had faces.
I think it was just the reflection of some tower
lights though.
Next door the neighbor’s dog was barking so sadly
in a language I couldn’t understand. Like when you’re
in another country and you need to find the hospital
immediately or find your kidnapped wife and no one
knows what you’re trying to say.
It’s good to be in those situations. Not the needing
a hospital or having a kidnapped wife obviously but to
be somewhere where you can’t communicate.
To feel stupid and h…](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4d7w4ylnasmg7oayamznsznp/bafkreicgvggyxvpiynxptqdbrfdwgdiyzfs6lrkiixdmtboynn3w3wzgeq)
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Luke O'Neil
@lukeoneil47.bsky.social
The funniest part the guy said was driving home
after the game and seeing someone hopping a cemetery
fence with a bottle of champagne.
October 27, 2004
Across the street some kids were playing baseball which
felt anachronistic in the first place and one of them
socked a big dinger and they all moved instinctively and
anxiously like they do when that sort of thing happens.
I watched the ball arc up toward the moon which
wasn’t out yet but you could tell was waiting there just
backstage rehearsing its lines and I thought people that
young are walking on a tightrope they aren’t even aware
of yet. Not just unafraid of falling but oblivious to the
existence of the chasm.
I was listening to In the Aeroplane Over the Sea I’m
sorry I know and I thought that if you skip “[untitled]”
you didn’t earn “Two-Headed Boy Pt. 2” because in
my day we suffered differently about things that didn’t
matter.
I never knew if it was meant to be I love you comma
Jesus Christ or if it was supposed to be I love you Jesus
Christ straight through no punctuation like was he
addressing some person or the Son of God himself.
Jesus Christ I love you yes I do.
On my phone there was a grim dark storm cloud
hovering over Rhode Island and the blackness looked
like it had one little arm or flipper hanging down to do
its damage with like a perverted little sky imp would
have and there were two bright orange lights right in
ALT
the center where the storm’s face would be if storms
had faces.
I think it was just the reflection of some tower
lights though.
Next door the neighbor’s dog was barking so sadly
in a language I couldn’t understand. Like when you’re
in another country and you need to find the hospital
immediately or find your kidnapped wife and no one
knows what you’re trying to say.
It’s good to be in those situations. Not the needing
a hospital or having a kidnapped wife obviously but to
be somewhere where you can’t communicate.
To feel stupid and h…](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4d7w4ylnasmg7oayamznsznp/bafkreibw5asupuxw7e2h7tzgu4hs5p3kcpsxzn7m5wly44a4u7tla5b47e)
