[thedz]

     This presentation is bullshit. You have no evidence,
     nothing valuable to show, just spurious subjective
     opinions. You've put up a straw man and now are trying
     to knock it down assuming we are idiots. I've seen 
     enough.

Whoever said this is a dev I'd refuse to ever put into an interview again. Hell, I'd be reluctant to put this dev into any meetings requiring communication skills.

[ubernostrum]

Replace random dev in an interview saying this, with Linus on a mailing list saying this, and sadly the response to it will be very different.

If you wonder why the random dev in the interview thinks this is acceptable behavior, that's a clue.

[volume]

Stated in this exact way, word-for-word is quite extreme. Could the author be paraphrasing?

I'm probably nitpicking like a nerd. Even if he were paraphrasing it wouldn't take away from the overall message.

[JackMorgan]

I wrote it down the quotes four years ago, just because I knew I'd want to write about it at some point. I didn't want to "get back at them", just turn it into something good.

[PopeOfNope]

I had a slightly different takeaway: who asks a candidate to perform a slideshow presentation at an interview?

[santaclaus]

I've heard of Pixar requesting presentations for plain old development positions.