| Feels like the guy was a douche, sociopath or some kind of scammer. It's not worth interacting and definitely not worth trying to figure out what happened. Fun red flag things candidates have said to me in interviewing: 1) Me: I see you have a PhD in computer science, what was your thesis topic? (Because I hadn't managed to find their thesis) Candidate: Object orientation 2)
Candidate (for a unix sysadmin role): I don't see how these questions are relevant to the role. Me: I do the role currently and these questions are a selection of some of the more interesting shell-scripting things I've had to do in the last couple of weeks. Candidate (yelling over the phone): I WROTE THE LINUX KERNEL (they didn't have any linux kernel code contributions and weren't even active on lkml) 3) Me: Here's an interesting challenge we're facing right now. See it's right in the hot path of some code that gets called a lot and basically we need (as fast as possible) to count the number of bits that are set in millions of flag variables. How would you approach that? Candidate (with a smile, leaning back, arms crossed): You're never going to interest a pure computer scientist in optimizing a O(1) problem. |