[perl4ever]

My last phone screen, I had a job and was pretty sure I didn't want to go anywhere, so I was free to express myself and talked about how much I liked the sort of problems I was dealing with at work. The feedback to the recruiter was "he didn't sound technical enough"...despite them not asking any technical questions.

Everybody wants to save the world of course, but it seems like the modal outlook is that everything else comes first, including all the dealbreakers, and the substance of what you are doing is mostly pro forma.