A powerful three word phrase that summons forth buried trauma for many. May the ignorant be so lucky as to continue enjoying their bliss.
I got contacted by a previous manager to apply.
I applied, and _tried_ to set up a first round interview.
I had email receipts and calendar invites for an interview during my lunch break on a weekday. I was ready and available and connected to the Zoom meeting and nobody showed for an hour (which was the end of the interview slot and the end of my lunch break where I had to go back to work).
I emailed them asking what was going on, nothing back for two hours until they sent me a new calendar invite for the middle of the afternoon in my workday. I told them I couldn't make it and they canceled the interview and did not respond to several emails sent to them to try and reschedule.
Second worst Linux distro interview process after Canonical.
Give us your high school GPA and write all of these essays and bla bla bla. Then they ghost you.
I once found myself unexpectedly being asked to take a wonderlic test, I failed the math portion on purpose then when I went into the actual interview I said roughly "haha, that math section was so hard".
My degree is in CS & Math, I just didn't want to burn the recruiter relationship.
Nice campus with private offices, pool tables and such, countered by less than stellar management.
But to their credit, it's running on Mars, on (at least) Pathfinder, Spirit, Curiosity, and Opportunity.
Meeting, and in most cases seriously exceeding planned mission lifetimes, earns VxWorks some serious kudos from me.
In general, the software worked as expected, and did what a RTOS is supposed to do in terms of being predictable and deterministic.