[chris_wot]

Not really. Australian managers can be just as bad as any other managers anywhere in the world. I should know, I've worked in Australian companies all my life and there are good firms and bad firms :-)

P.S. If you are from the UK or US they might treat you with a bit more respect... Put it down to cultural cringe

[coroutines]

It's just really hard for me to view an interviewer as a friend usually. A couple weeks ago I had a really amazing interview experience with a company called Volantio because the first screening was a 'get to know you' sort of thing. Dude made it easy saying he wasn't yet interested in my qualifications/education and just wanted to talk about my interests.

We must have talked for over an hour about how great we think Coffeescript is.. (I'm a zealot).

Anyway, I wish I could make more interviews like that. I've actually started putting it in my cover letters that I'd appreciate going for lunch or something just to hang out and talk about frameworks.

It's great when I can detach myself from 'needing a job'.