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by ruirr 3642 days ago
They have thrown him the CV and the candidate does not know the company was run by idiots? You must be joking.
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I'm not joking because I don't know much about the company other than it sounds like it was a large company. (Author says "avoid large companies in his post").

If the people that interviewed him at a large company were unprofessional when he refused THEIR process, that doesn't mean the company is necessarily bad. He doesn't know.

I've never worked at a company, even a small one, where I thought everyone was competent. He had an opportunity to placate them and give the company a chance but he was so set on trying to tell them why their process was flawed and how his was better (look at my github and code).

Part of working at a large company is being able to be tactful and wade through the bullshit, often times dealing with incompetent people or those that do things differently. Maybe large companies aren't for him. They aren't for me either.

But it's not fair to say the company was run by idiots because they tossed a resume back at him when he refused their process. He obviously lacks tact and knows everything while being insecure at the same time (see young punks statement in thread). We also don't know that the interviewers are running the company as you suggest. If it's a large company, they probably aren't.

"Part of working at a large company is being able to be tactful and wade through the bullshit"

^ This may be the only thing a whiteboard test is actually good for.