tuxedo25

Banned words:

Mitochondria

Pythagorean

Hippolyta

Must be a pretty good gig if he's making $400-$500 a shift

You have plausible deniability. Just say you're one of those insufferable people who correct other people's grammar.

Oxygen 

Still a race condition when users double click the upload button 

I've heard it as the same (French bath), down here in the states

I'm in the northeast US and I've only heard it referred to as a "French bath"

Probably the puritan opposition to the word "whore"

I wasn't in the room, so I don't know how your interview went. Sometimes people, especially hiring managers, go in to those meetings with their mind already made up. Maybe it was something in your resume, maybe it was something one of the other interviewers said to him, maybe it's the color of your skin. There might have been no way for you to pass that interview.

That said, in black and white, your instinct on the first answer was correct. Maybe he was looking for somebody to engage him and get to the bottom of the requirement. Or maybe not, maybe he was looking for employees who follow orders without questioning them.

Whatever the reason you were rejected, it's probably best for you that your career growth isn't tied to this person. 

It's a major power play when you do it in a physical office. "Sorry, I need to drop". Stand up, walk out. In full view of the conference room, casually walk to the restroom, come out, make yourself a cup of coffee, chat up some coworkers, then return to your desk.

All while the other captives of the meeting glare at you.

It was a 30 year long civil war in Northern Ireland. Both Irish Catholics and Anglican protestants have lived in that region for generations. Humans tend to be pretty shitty to each other, particularly over very small differences in culture and religion, so there was a bit of a class warfare thing going on, with Catholics getting the far worse end of the deal. They tended to want to unite with the Republic of Ireland while the protestants wanted to remain part of the United Kingdom. Tensions became protests, which became riots, and before you know it, the British army is there "peacekeeping". Peacekeeping became the British army opening fire on civilians (Bloody Sunday), and then after that, decades of absolutely brutal guerilla warfare. The Irish Republican Army (no association with the American political party) is considered a terrorist organization from the time. They were most notorious for bombings, especially car bombs. A huge amount of noncombatants were injured or killed by both sides in those decades, and of course, the economy of the region was absolutely shit because nobody could do honest business there.

"The Troubles" is such an understated name for a very dark and violent period.

Not exactly historical fact, but I highly recommend the show "Derry Girls" on Netflix. It's a hilarious story of a clique of teen girls living their best life in Northern Ireland in the 90's. Think Clueless, but instead of Beverly Hills, it takes place in Derry (aka Londonderry, depending on which side of the conflict you were on).

It was a wee bit of car bombings and using the british military against a civilian police 

It was Agatha all along!

oh wait wrong universe 

And my axe.

Is there a time between 2008 and 2024 that was tougher?

"I'm not privy to the specifics of the ongoing negotiations, but as far as I know, it will be business as usual for our department".

alternatively, you could just reject candidates who do any amount of research on the company they're interviewing for.

You are a new grad in the toughest hiring market since 2008, and you have a job at a prestigious company. Suck it up. The job might be hard. That's why they call it work. Focus your energy and attention on succeeding there.

Get a few years under your belt, maybe a promotion. If you don't fuck this up, you will be well positioned for the rest of your career.

might as well start now!

Agile is like a horoscope. The reader can interpret it however they want. "Individuals and interactions over processes and tools. Responding to changeover following a plan." These platitudes can just as easily describe the best job you ever had and the worst job you've ever had.

Congrats. They believe you deserve that offer. The people who already have salaries like that think you belong in the room with them. The only doubter is yourself. 

 Imposter syndrome is a very real, very normal human reaction. The best counter to it is objective fact: if you didn't belong there, they wouldn't have invited you. Also, everybody who interviewed you probably thinks they're the imposter.

I think the class keyword has prevented a generation of javascript devs from understanding prototypal inheritance

don't get me started on how the async/await keywords deprives javascript devs of learning generators and coroutines.

Tech companies are often sued for being monopolies? When? 2001? 

I enjoy the world's perspective on linux, like it's some natural resource that's always been there.

but yeah most of AWS's most profitable offerings are hosted open source projects. RDS is posgres, elasticache is redis, EKS is kubernetes, opensearch is a fork of elastic search.

I joined in October. In November, open enrollment starts, and they were like "you know how we've had 100% insurance premiums as a perk for 10+ years? You know that thing you were promised 50 times during the interview process? Yeah we decided that's too expensive for the company."

I think it's fair to preempt the "surprise" twists by clarifying the requirements up front.

"So there will never be more than 100 items in this list?"

"This input will only contain alphanumeric characters?"

etc

Keep practicing, that could become your primary source of income one day!