After I had my first child I interviewed at a local company because I wanted to reduce my commute time.
First thing I learned is that they were planning to move soon, to the same town I was currently working in. So much for cutting commute time. That wasn't their fault but I really wished they had mentioned it in the ad.
At the time I worked mainly in C++. The project manager who interviewed me asked me a technical question, which I answered with C++ terms. That's not what he wanted. He told me that what I had just described was called "polymorphism" and launched into a lecture about the concept. He just assumed that I didn't know what I was talking about. That was grating.
The icing on the cake was when it was mentioned that employees had to leave the site at lunch time to prevent industrial espionage (the software I was supposed to write was to run on proprietary hardware).
I have no idea what is standard in the hardware industry, but I came out of there thinking "Why would I want to work for a company that assumes I'm a thief?"
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After I had my first child I interviewed at a local company because I wanted to reduce my commute time.
First thing I learned is that they were planning to move soon, to the same town I was currently working in. So much for cutting commute time. That wasn't their fault but I really wished they had mentioned it in the ad.
At the time I worked mainly in C++. The project manager who interviewed me asked me a technical question, which I answered with C++ terms. That's not what he wanted. He told me that what I had just described was called "polymorphism" and launched into a lecture about the concept. He just assumed that I didn't know what I was talking about. That was grating.
The icing on the cake was when it was mentioned that employees had to leave the site at lunch time to prevent industrial espionage (the software I was supposed to write was to run on proprietary hardware).
I have no idea what is standard in the hardware industry, but I came out of there thinking "Why would I want to work for a company that assumes I'm a thief?"