I'm sure I've told this story before, it gets funnier to me every time.
The interview was to work on a very small web services team for the Chemistry department at my university. It was an absolute mess from start to finish.
Their office was the most depressing physical location I've ever been in. An old, musty university basement with bare walls and sketchy fluorescent lighting. Basically a dungeon.
They'd printed out several pages of interview questions. Like, an intimidating stack of paper. Most of the questions had acronyms I'd never heard of. To this day I think I would fail that interview.
They asked my thoughts on Python. I said in my experience it was a little slow, pretty good scripting language though. (This was 2010.) They said it wasn't slow, it was one of the fastest ones. Still not sure what they were talking about.
The hiring manager FELL ASLEEP halfway through the interview. His employee had to complete it without him.
A day or two after the interview they sent me a one-line email response. It said "We cannot hire you because you do not know much about the Internet."
I'm sure I've told this story before, it gets funnier to me every time.
The interview was to work on a very small web services team for the Chemistry department at my university. It was an absolute mess from start to finish.
Dodged a bullet, I guess?
Jesus christ, this had me rolled over 🤣
Thanks for sharing