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> I once had an engineer keep interrupting me while I was explaining how sockets work because I wasn't covering small minutia details.

I'm going to be in trouble when it comes time to interview again someday. I am not nearly as accepting of muscle flexing (anti-social behavior) as I was 10 years ago.

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You and me both. I had to walk out of an interview because the interviewer had become borderline rude and I could not think of anything at all professional to respond with.

Here's to future self-employment!

How'd you walk out? "Sorry, but I'd like to respect both of our time and end my candidacy here"?

I literally shot up out of my seat, offered my hand and said 'thanks for your time!' and got the hell out of there.

Not the smoothest, but it was just time for me to leave.

Makes me appreciate working for a large cloud with a core value “don’t be a jerk.”

Is this Microsoft? If so, good to know they've adopted this policy!

Sounds like Pivotal, which literally has "Be Kind" as one of the three core values.

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, actually. Oracle gets a lot of flak on HN, and some of it is justified. But the reality is that the team working on OCI is top-notch. And the product itself is quite compelling.

Oracle as an enterprise/legal behemoth is very different from the cloud transformation business unit.

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