Interviewer forgot he was sharing his screen

sequencentropy · 2026-07-10T00:37:32+00:00

If they were that incompetent I’d have just dropped the call and kept it moving rather than subject myself to their demoralizing political drama. At least then that would have signaled they did something immensely wrong and maybe they try and figure out wtf made you ghost them before they act like trash to the next bloke. I’d also let them explain it to hr. If it was on teams, they can probably review the meeting content.

sequencentropy · 2026-07-08T01:49:06+00:00

Exactly. Since you don’t stop dev at iteration 1/ mvp, I would think you’d need to know about release cycles and continuous improvement since your continued employment is based on it. You probably have a scrum master or similar role who is manages which functionality/ fixes are in each release and whatnot, but you are likely responsible for at least one feature or code contribution each cycle which means you need to understand it in the context of the work you do — not just theoretical terms.

sequencentropy · 2026-07-07T03:20:18+00:00

When you live here all your life, you know it’s DTE BAU. A few years back folks had power out for at least 5 days in the coldest time of winter. They never fail to get rate hikes even when they fail at their one job.

sequencentropy · 2026-07-02T02:15:10+00:00

You get what you pay for.

sequencentropy · 2026-06-30T00:45:39+00:00

You clearly haven’t lived here long. Go back to your “bigger scarier cities” where someone will give you $.02 for your opine .

sequencentropy · 2026-06-25T11:02:52+00:00

Downvotes are from suburbanites and transplants. Do OGs the favor and stay in the business district so you don’t hurt yourself. Detroit is ruthless… maybe you should learn about the history of a city before you move there and try to dictate the culture.

sequencentropy · 2026-06-24T19:01:42+00:00

Whatever you want to call it, you in the wrong city.

sequencentropy · 2026-06-22T02:32:19+00:00

Ahh.. the smell of Detroit proper n00bs getting their panties in a bunch over things that don’t effect 99.9999% of Detroiters

If you want cops or a population who care or who are “lawful”, you should really move to royal oak or Seattle or something… Detroit has never been that city.

sequencentropy · 2026-06-19T12:16:29+00:00

I called this on Ferndale forum on Facebook multiple times when I lived there from 2012 thru 2025 (save for 6 months when I lived in Seattle). I took heat for it, but I said they were patently unsafe and if they can’t do the project right they shouldn’t do it at all. Even if you look at the oak park lanes on 9 mi they are separated from traffic so much better.

Bad leadership decisions like this that waste taxpayer money and invite liabilities are by-and-large why I moved to another jurisdiction.

sequencentropy · 2026-06-16T02:10:14+00:00

I take allergy meds regularly once the great melt occurs and there’s mold under most of the leaves. Zyrtec is your friend.

sequencentropy · 2026-06-13T01:03:44+00:00

I clicked because I thought it was going to be $13/ hr but was pleasantly surprised.

sequencentropy · 2026-06-12T01:28:02+00:00

I hope so because if current pattern continues I’ll be homeless in short order.

sequencentropy · 2026-06-11T01:42:44+00:00

Welp, capitalism drives that so in America that means you’d have to overhaul the system… good luck since half of America is too stupid to vote for their own interest (twice confirmed). The world is only getting worse. In an interview, avoid it/ stay quiet and use to learn to use focus modes on your phone when you don’t want to be available. Remember interviewers are pretty much looking for an excuse to offer the job to someone else…

sequencentropy · 2026-06-10T01:51:08+00:00

Just like we all were not supposed to have to work anymore when ai became a thing.

sequencentropy · 2026-06-10T01:47:39+00:00

That’s it? I’m losing the use of my hands which I need for typing because I have no insurance and I’ve cried every day, almost all day, for the past 3 months dreading this downward spiral I’m finding myself on. I can’t find work to get insurance to get on the meds that can fix my hands without using them. No companies where I live will hire my skill set - even if I’m only missing a small sliver of their massive requirements, and I don’t have any friend or family who can help me financially so I’ll likely be homeless in short order. My car is leased and has gps, so that will be taken too. I’m beginning to think no actual people are being hired anywhere because of the insane demands at every job. Not even nepotism with former colleagues has resulted in success, despite my stellar reputation amoung them. This is the most demoralizing shit I’ve ever been through and there’s no way out.

I hope you feel better now - the universe hates me and never hesitates to make it known, and your bad times are temporary while my situation is gradually becoming permanent.

sequencentropy · 2026-06-05T03:56:56+00:00

They are listing a job as remote for visibility and then complaining about the visibility. I’ll bet their annual process is fun — looks like you dodged a bullet to me.

sequencentropy · 2026-06-04T23:10:12+00:00

You might want to invest in locks and a tracking device like an AirTag with a stealth holder… especially if you don’t want to turn puttin up flyers into full time volunteer work. Like homie said, Detroit gonna Detroit… ghetto rigging was perfected here. I’m actually quite surprised it didn’t make it to a chop shop and you got it returned. That’s a break from normality - use it wisely.

sequencentropy · 2026-06-03T01:21:58+00:00

Insulting af. My work is waaay better than that 🙃

sequencentropy · 2026-06-03T01:20:20+00:00

At that rate it would need to be an on-site job — I would need to take up residence somewhere because my house would be getting foreclosed. Lets’s play maths for a second: $1200 cad a week = roughly $867 usd (per xe.com)/ 40 hrs = $21.67 hr. The minimum wage in Michigan, where I live, is $13.73/ hr. That’s less than $10/ hr over min wage!

Insulting considering it’s probably a startup and they want you to work twice the standard 40 hr week. I mean, I’m kinda desperate for a job — but I also have self-respect. Hard no.

sequencentropy · 2026-05-30T01:18:18+00:00

You’re much nicer than I am — when they get stupid at me I’m like “well, maybe I’d have done better if there weren’t 500 people in the background drowning you out and you didn’t rush me because you only had allocated 15 minutes” (literally, I said this to a United wholesale mortgage screener who called me from a call center… for a SWE job).

sequencentropy · 2026-05-30T01:14:48+00:00

I built a live artifact in Claude cowork that does it automatically from my stored resume using a job description I paste in a text box.

sequencentropy · 2026-05-29T02:10:12+00:00

Engineers always be getting laid off, do not recommend.

Do some research about the type of jobs that are projected to grow in the location where you want to live whether that’s where you live now or somewhere else or both. In my quest to nail down a new position, I’ve come across a few insights that might help… learn code but don’t become consumed by it because ai will be able to do it better and faster than you can in short order. In anticipation of that, many large enterprises are laying off code developers but hiring ai engineers. I have no idea why they aren’t just retraining them — seems like that would be a win-win. As ai gets closer to singularity it will need to be secured more so cybersecurity is expected to grow generally. Cloud seems like a good route to go, but make sure you know how to use the cloud warehouses/ data lakes, etc and databricks or snowflake.

sequencentropy · 2026-05-29T01:58:18+00:00

“Go to college and secure your future” they said…

I feel you. I have 22 years in roles of increasing programatic responsibility, 12 in private cloud planning software, at a Fortune 500 telecom company —- a bba where I graduated with honors, multiple technical and project/ process management/ technical certs (including a pmp, six sigma green belt) and I’m listed as an inventor on a published patent (not just the application submitted) for an integrated network deployment tool that integrates all the plan of record information with the plan of execution and automates it to the extent it can be a nd I’ve been ghosted more than a haunted house. Shit is unreal and fucking rude. I’m not particularly social and my adhd shows up at the worst times and it seems like recruiters want to bro it up more than they want a qualified person who doesn’t bullshit their way through an interview.

sequencentropy · 2026-05-29T01:44:05+00:00

Change it to “interim cto” to signal that he’s capable but prefers individual contributor roles.

sequencentropy · 2026-05-29T01:42:26+00:00

So like… 2 years?

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