Had my first 'bad' interview in years yesterday

[Gentile]

Wots a DV?

Developed Vetting

[Sysman]

You might be right about exposure to turd world dictators at an early age. The only ones I knew at public school were the Kaunda boys of Kenneth Kaunda's family, who were really very nice guys, plus a few utterly revolting British aristocrats who'd be dangerous in charge of a chip shop, never mind an embassy or an army regiment.

I came across some of the upper classes at Uni who could have been dangerous.

But I also came across foreigners who were really nice and well regarded in the UK, but changed personalities when in their own country.

[Sysman]

"How would you tell a developer his code is crap?"

I've done that, but phrased it a little more diplomatically:

"This code is crap because..."

Had one brave chap retort with "Well it works". When I told him a few of the ways it could fail in the future, he simply said "We'll fix it when it fails".

We whipped a few privileges away from him after that.

[mudskipper]

...
Never mind, keep looking.

^ This

Their loss. FWIW, my last interview was crap and I got the gig, so sometimes not as bad as you fear.

[sbakoola]

^ This

Their loss. FWIW, my last interview was crap and I got the gig, so sometimes not as bad as you fear.

Same here and sometimes I think I've done really well at an interview and it doesn't go anywhere.

[Old Greg]

Ive worked in some really evil places where the receptionists were super nice. So the test is meaningless.

You're missing through point. Russell is a charmless temp receptionist who has illusions that he is a contractor. So I'm guessing the companies themselves must have been nice places.

[Spacecadet]

Here is a good idea for a film:

"The Interview"

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