[maccard]

> I am, just to be clear, not defending people being willfully obtuse or contrary jackasses

The comment I replied to said:

> "now what if we wanted to build it in-house?" > "Well I would probably go home and work on my resume because that's a fool's errand."

That’s not a different kind of correct, that’s just being a jackass.

[wpietri]

I read that as being his emotional reaction, not something he'd say in an interview context. This being an internet forum and all.

What I think he's sincere about is not wanting to work at a place that builds unnecessary stuff. And if people are asking for answers that require building unnecessary stuff, I think it's a reasonable inference that the place is not right for him.

I think interviewing is always a two-way street. If I got the feel that a place was going to have a lot of over-complicated code for me to deal with, or expected a lot of status-driven deference against actual user and business need, I wouldn't just give an interview-ending tart reply. But I would politely finish out the interview and then write them off unless there were other signals that redeemed the bad interview questions.