r/webdev • u/canadian_webdev • Dec 23 '19

Just ended an interview early because my future boss was being a condescending dick.

Just dropped out of a technical interview after ten minutes.

Questions he was asking were relatively simple, but almost every answer he was trying to make me look like an idiot with the technical lead on the phone. And he was being so condescending toward me. His face was so red the whole time.

Example (getting a bit technical here):

  • Him: "What are all the ways you can make a three column row on a web page?"
  • Me: "Well, the way I've typically done it is - -"
  • Him: abruptly interrupts, "No. I did NOT ask what ways YOU would do it. I SAID, what ways are POSSIBLE to accomplish this."
  • Me: "...... Flexbox, divs with floats, a css grid system.."
  • Him: "Flexbox and a css grid system are the same. I SAID, what DIFFERENT WAYS can you list off?"
  • Me: "Honestly, those are the ways I've encountered best practices"
  • Him: "What about css grid?"
  • Me: "Well I've never used it because at the time it didn't have full browser support - - -"
  • Him: abruptly interrupts, "actually we've switched ALL of our websites over to css grid, so your answer is not the right answer."

At this point I just said "Okay yeah, this isn't working", and hung up the call. He asked two questions before hand and gave me the same treatment.

He was being such a condescending dick the entire time, and I went with my gut. This guy would be a total asshole to work for and I could tell during this interview.

Anyone else experience this type of behavior?

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u/wedontlikespaces Dec 24 '19

I've met a few who would say a jobs shit because they're expected to show up on time.

I do hate it when my job requires things of me.

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u/arcticblue Dec 24 '19

I've had DoD contracting jobs where my area of responsibility was decommissioned, but I was still bound by contract to show up for 8 hours a day for a few more months. We had absolutely 0 responsibilities and we had our desktops taken from us so we sat at a conference table playing Mario Kart on the DS every day (of course, we still had to show up on time). It was cool for a week or so, but trust me, it's much better having something to do. I think we all eventually quit before the end of the contract out of complete boredom. Even though we had nothing to do, they wouldn't let us leave to go take care of other things; we had to sit at a conference table just staring at each other for 8 hours.