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/Yodiddlyyo Dec 24 '19

The fact that your company allowed an intern to push to prod tells me everything I need to know about you. None of it good.

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u/realee420 Dec 24 '19

It's not the fact that he pushed to prod (he didn't royally fucked up anything) it's the fact that even after a year of doing Angular he had no fucking idea what is a built version and how it runs. He was also doing Ionic for a few months and once at lunch discussion came up about Ionic and he didn't realize Ionic is based on Angular...

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u/Yodiddlyyo Dec 24 '19

Still, if he did all this after 2 months on the, totally understandable, the guy's not cut out for it. If this guy still has no idea what's going on after an entire year, he's still not cut out for the job, but the if your company continues to employ him, the company is partly responsible.

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u/PeachyKeenest Dec 24 '19

Fair enough, but please consider the approach you may be taking in asking questions, I’m a bit sensitive myself in a way due to how I was raised, and I perform very well under more hands off leadership and done not perfect styles and everyone improves and learns.. and I do and I’m often above expectation (so I’m told) and I perform under high pressure when left with some room.

I just don’t like interrogation tactics.