On 06/10/2015 07:47 PM, Lyndon Nerenberg wrote:
Over the past 25 years or so, I can think of a half-dozen offers I've
turned down because the employer failed the interview. (Which
doesn't make me a geeenious ... just someone who values low blood
pressure, and prefers an interesting work environment over $$$)
OK, can't ignore a straight line like that...
When I was living in Chicago, a head-hunter steered me to a consulting
firm that had a hot project. They were looking for young hot
programmers for a top-secret project.
After the phone screen, the company called me in for the face-to-face
"interview". I put the word "interview" in quotes because, for 25
minutes, the chief programmer of the place played a video game he wrote.
That was the extent of the interview!
The company? A game studio (back when game studios were new) who had a
contract to develop games for the to-be-introduced Coleco Adam. Um,
that was a surprise, and not my thing. I ran out of there...
