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rikroots on July 16, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: Tech sector job interviews assess anxiety, not sof...

I completely bombed an interview because they gave me a laptop but refused to supply a mouse. Plus the laptop touchpad scrolled in the opposite direction to what I was used to. I felt quite sorry for the interviewers who had to sit silent for ten minutes watching me try to copy a function from one file to another.

cutemonster on July 16, 2020 [–]

Mark and rikroots, I'm curious about how long it took for you to travel to the interview and back

mark-r on July 20, 2020 | [–]

Not long at all for me. In fact the company was next door to another place I had worked in the past.

cutemonster on July 27, 2020 | | [–]

Ok, good it was close

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