The joy of interviewing when sick and depressed
- Interviewer
- Here’s this spiffy interactive whiteboard you can use! Tell me how to get and put information into a hashtable.
- Me
- ( sfx: clouds sailing idly through an empty sky as my brain completely empties of whatever technical skills I ever had )
- Interviewer
- Maybe we should do this interview later?
- Me
- Good idea. Thanks.
I’ve never actually washed out of an interview quite so impressively as I did today. It doesn’t help that if I did a good interview I might get a programming job, and the whole idea of programming for a living repels me (“Congratulations, you win the grand prize! Would you prefer to be flayed alive or move to [redacted] and work in a cubicle?” Can I decline the prize and live under a bridge instead, please?)
Two days until the end of the semester.