[arethuza]

I didn't realise what it was like to panic in an interview until it happened to me - couldn't write code to detect whether two rectangles were overlapping even though I had been doing graphics programming for 10+ years at that point.

It was a CTO role and I'd just aced a presentation on "How to launch a new product" and I could not context switch to coding mode fast enough.

[brigandish]

It happened to me once too, when I was still wet behind the ears, my mind went totally blank, could barely remember my own name. It didn’t help when one of the two men interviewing me said “look, we don’t want bullshitters here”.

I wonder if I’m one of the anecdotes about people in tech who can’t do the basics. That would at least amuse me somewhat.