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> scientists going to antarctica

I know someone who applied for a technical job based in antarctica and the interview process was much less arduous than the one described here.

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I applied to be an astronaut and that was only 5 or 6 rounds of interviews. Granted, you have a lot more invasive medical tests and being dunked upside down in swimming pools.

That doesn’t sound nearly as bad as implementing quicksort on a whiteboard :)

It actually sounds like fun in comparison to implementing anything on a whiteboard.

I'd rather all interview processes were like one of those funny Japanese game shows, rather than the dehumanisingly dull whiteboard interviee.

I could see a dystopian sci-fi short story or Black Mirror episode with the same theme.

It depends where you're going. Villas Las Estrellas requires an appendix removal.

I'm assuming this is a joke of some sort?

No he's not joking https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20180810-villas-las-estre...

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