[starwind]

The guy was a director-level and had been a software engineer. I had just been fired/laid-off from my last job for not faking results, so I walked in and gave him an updated resume. He asked what happened and I said they pressed me to do some things with the data that I wasn’t comfortable with. He was like “been there.” And we moved on to the interview.

He asked me to talk about some projects I’ve worked on, he asked me to white-board a recursive factorial function, asked why I wanted to work there and why I wanted to work in defense. He gave me a quick tour and sold me on the benefits.

No crazy mind-teasers, no ridiculous culture fit crap, just a good conservation where I could show that I had the skills for the job I was interviewing for