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I had a similar in 2000 during the .com bubble, interviewed at an ecomm company doing libraries, Amazon had not yet put them out of business. All c++ cgi. I asked a lot of questions about the stack and dev speed. They had looked at java but didn't have experience so were just going to plug along in c++. Their customers, libraries and book stores, didn't care.

They passed. Reason was I was too much of a cowboy and they were afraid I'd rewrite their whole system within a few months of starting.

I can read that many ways these days but I'm glad they passed ...