I had an interview cancelled this morning, mere hours before it was scheduled, because they offered the role to someone else. I don’t know what kind of operation this group was running, but it’s another of those examples of how corporate recruiting treats those looking for work, and makes one wonder how they’re thinking the impression they create among interested parties will be carried long-term. They’re certainly not creating promoters through that sort of effort.
Anyhow, that’s the extent of my venting on the matter. Best of luck to them in their continued blah blah blah. I was very happy to attend the other interview I scheduled for the day, which went pretty well if I do say so myself.1Ed note: I mean, it’s your blog bud. Of course you say so.
Also, in my grumbling afterwards, I noticed a typo on my resume. Son of a…
Inputs
1: An example of my general theory of tech incompetence when it comes to areas outside their physical presences: electric cars aren’t getting the range their owners expect in the cold.
This feeds into my general belief that large tech companies, who don’t, as a group, have headquarters located in the upper Midwest (where it gets, y’know, cold) have massive blindspots in the implementations of their technology. The one that always comes to mind for me is the Apple Weather app which regularly displays zero degrees as -0º, and has nonsensical snowfall totals every time it snows.
These aren’t things one notices in the Valley in CA or in Austin, TX, or Virginia, or Raleigh, but would be very evident to their engineers and product managers if they actually used their products in the variety of conditions afforded by a Chicago or a Milwaukee or a Minneapolis.
2: Today on Pablo Torre Finds Out, we learn about the Stanley phenomenon (yes, the brand that made the camping cookware buried in the storage tub in your garage) and how women selling to women stoked this entire trend. Plus a whole threadline on “Who was the Pop-Tart” which, if that means nothing to you, will mean something to you after watching Sarah Spain’s investigative reporting.
3: In a depressing follow-up to Tuesday’s grumbling about the declining quality of Google searches, “Google News Is Boosting Garbage AI-Generated Articles,” from, again, 404 Media. Which, of course they are. First they broke local news, now they’re going to break the entirety of news by replacing it with AI-generated bullshit en masse to avoid paying their means of production. Late capitalism isn’t late enough, friends.
Projects In Progress
(I should note here that I pre-write a lot of these early in the day, so I’m guessing at my progress most of the time.) Good, I guess? Futzing around with hosting and frameworks and stuff.
Notes:
- 1Ed note: I mean, it’s your blog bud. Of course you say so.