Renegade Folk Hero

So, lately there’s been a lot of interviews around my office. Most of them stemming from the the various aquisitions/mergers and the shuffle that came with. Mark’s team is interviewing this one guy right now. He seems pretty hard up for the job; he came in wearing a bold black suit. Not really sure what his mindset is coming in like that, especially for an engineering position for a group that designs a blog portal. My guess is he’s probably fresh out of college. Anyhow, right now Garret sat him down at the hotel workstation and is having him code up an ls command as a test of his unix savy. Seems kind of cruel. Cruel and comical. The poor guy is sitting there in his nice black suit, which is buckling under the stress of being put on the spot. He doesn’t look too comfortable.

From what I can tell though, Garret (and Paul who left Mark’s team not too long ago) seems to enjoy destroying the interviewees with technical questions. And while I think his questions are not unfair, they do seem meticulously specific. In the past at times when the interview went south, though, it sounded like Garret and Paul resorted to torturing candidates who were clearly out of their medium. I think I’m still undecided whether it’s funny or not; it probably won’t be long before I’m either going to or giving job interviews.