Rants from a Job Applicant After 100 CS Job Interviews in Silicon Valley

I watched the whole thing, allow me to summarize.

Her story begins: She quits her presumably well paying job at Cisco because she finds it uninspiring. She drafts a strict list of requirements.

- No large companies.

- No homogeneous cultures.

- No arrogant young techbros.

- No stupid apps.

- No to being co-founder or first engineer.

- No offices more than 30 miles away.

Susan has a keen nose. She spots red flags immediately just by a single stroll through the office. This is a common occurrence for her. She never gets feedback after a phone screen or interview. How unhelpful! Except when she does get feedback. That feedback deserves to be criticized publicly. You hired someone you used to work with? You are a nepotist! Expecting someone to know Ruby when applying to a Ruby job is confusing. Code challenges are dumb. She also considers herself a mid-to-senior level engineer who shouldn't be subject to them. This is despite a practically non-existent track record of accomplishments on her resume. Anyways, life is hard when you have 100 interviews lined up, who has time for code challenges. Also you never get feedback on code challenges. Except when you do, then she will criticize that technical feedback in a public rant. Finally a job offer! But this startup wanted to pay her less than she made at Cisco. It was also less than the market rate for a Software Engineer in San Francisco. No attention is given to the possibility that Software Engineer is a broad category and what she does may be less valuable than someone else. She explains this to the CEO who refuses to budge. She specifically has no feedback on what any of these companies could do better. They are just stupid jerks. She concludes with a final message: Its not you, Its them!

This was perhaps the most entitled speech I've ever heard in my life.

It is a general understanding that you hire someone who wants the job and who shows some acceptable level of seriousness to that effort. If someone goes to an interview and messes up that dynamic, many interviewers make a really quick decision in their head and waste the remaining interview time trying to be polite and not mess up the company image. Skills wont matter at that point of time.

Most of the "WTF" events in interviews happen because the interviewer made up their mind already and there is still a lot of time left and is under-prepared to handle the social situation that happens next.