Strong Sauce posted:

i have probably mentioned this story before in the job threads.

this was >4 years ago

basically one of the authors of a very popular frontend framework (not the position i was applying for) spent all his time looking down at his laptop chatting with his friends during the interview. the only times he looked up was when he walked in the door to say "hello" but didn't bother to allow me to introduce myself because he went right back down to looking at his laptop.

then looking at my resume, he asked me to either reimplement jquery or eventmachine from scratch. i chose jquery because gently caress if i know how a C or C++ library was written for ruby.

he pretty much spent the rest of the interview on his laptop. he looked up one time to check my progress, said something about, "how does jquery implement that?" (so of no real help at all), and went back down to his laptop.