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> Your friends and coworkers describe you as an "animal." You don't shower, you have a thick covering of fur, and you growl at strangers.

Spolsky did write for years about how he only hired devs who (very rough paraphrasing from memory):

- were geniuses - top of class - CS only - Ivy League - could recall the ins and outs of pointer arithmetic - Solve binary-recursive-whatcha-ma-callem puzzles in their sleep - are rockstars

Well, one programming teacher I had said that i was like a hunting dog, because I would stick with a problem until I've solved it, If I had incredible coding skills I would probably apply

Intimidating is often the point. I'd imagine it's a reflection of the culture, in this case that timidity may be eaten for brunch at the daily stand up.

> Your friends and coworkers describe you as an "animal."

That made me laugh so hard. Sounds like a borderline HR issue. :-)