[olivierlacan]

Ah, so you're saying you're financially and emotionally secure enough not to be completely discombobulated by this incredible display of disrespect?

Good for you I guess, but maybe don't apply your own mental blueprint to the rest of the world. Recommending candidates have thicker skin isn't really great a way to improve hiring in general.

[Hnrobert42]

An incredible display of disrespect? It might be rude, but that’s about it. Depending on the tone of voice, it could have been intended as a way to relieve the author’s tension.

It does sound a bit annoying, but if that is the author’s worst interviewing experience, it’s not that bad.

[markmark]

On reading it my thought was the interviewer was making a small joke to put the author at ease: "Ah, you've forgotten some semis, you're probably writing a lot of swift at the moment, it's okay". But he was in the room and I wasn't, so I can only trust his interpretation.

[grepfru_it]

i'm not sure you can jump to that conclusion either. there takes a certain level of maturity both emotional and financial at certain skill levels. a psychologist once pointed out to me that actors are able to take their nervousness and translate it into energy to use in the moment.

at a point in my career i faced a similar dilemma but handled it completely differently than i had earlier. someone made a snide comment "but why would you use bash for this?" and i was able to take it in stride and the result of that comment got me the job. but at the start of my career i may have reacted negatively, i may have clammed up and stammered my way through the rest of the interview etc (i didn't get those jobs). could you imagine being in front of a C-level exec or a $300M customer and being discombobulated?

no one wants to hire an insecure pre-sales engineer etc

EDIT: i'm assuming engineering levels beyond senior. my past experiences have been around principal/architect roles which require a 'tough skin'. i would not expect rude remarks to a SE1 or SE2 and if that was the role, i would leave flustered with a bad taste in my mouth as well

[ProjectArcturis]

How is a lame joke about Swift an "incredible display of disrespect"?

[throwaway675309]

Dial the rhetoric down, we can't really read the "context" in which this line was delivered by the interviewer. Glib? Sure. Incredible display of disrespect? Give me a break.