[jboggan]

Thanks for the compliment, I didn't realize it would turn out so long. I think I ought to start writing more often.

I joke about the interview process existing to inflate the ego of the interviewer, but it isn't that far off. Everyone wants to be Google so they have to "act like Google". Meanwhile Google stopped doing that five years ago, but they're not going to tell you that.

I don't know what happened at that Kaggle interview and I'm not going to single out the people or the culture there because it really could have happened anywhere. Maybe I could ascribe some of it to having so many people coming from academia, since we (the PhD and post-doc dropouts) tend to have such enormous chips on our shoulders. But it's just our interview culture in general, so much unconscious bias.

I really would love for interviewers to look at your resume, say "well you've been gainfully employed doing this for 5 years, let's delve into your soft skills and see if you are actually a communication / working fit for this particular team" instead of just trying to see if you meet some arbitrary algorithmic bar and hope that correlates with job success.