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I can picture the linked in headline now. Why I made our prospects crawl and moo, and why you should, too.

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Exactly. LinkedIn is such a performative place now.

“I proposed to my fiance, 10 things I learned about sales after closing the biggest deal of my life”

This kind of bs is everywhere.

The nice thing about stuff like that is it makes it pretty explicitly clear who you should avoid working with.

Exactly. Life is too short to work with such self absorbed people.

I find it somewhat sad. I've seen a bunch of former colleagues posting more and more of that bullshit as time passes by and they don't get a job.

Knowing them, you can see they are desperate, and that's why they follow the spiel to get "noticed" on LinkedIn.

I do not like this interview; I will not pander, crawl, or moo.

Do you like green bucks and care? Do you like them, Smaug-you-are?

I prefer the following to make the rhyme less tenuous:

> You want some wages, Smaug-you-are? Your attitude won't take you far.

Leetcode I rather crank. Even partake in a Month python prank;

Could you, would you, with a goat?

People got to eat.

The unproffessional interviews are usually for the lowest paid jobs. Some pleb gets into a psotion of power and abuses it.

However I had my own strange interviews with supposedly "proffessional" people - and it feels like stupid, incompetent or straight up abusive people are everywhere. Sometimes they get weeded out by market economy, but sometimes they dont.

Talent selection's not easy to do. Supply and demand must forever be one; The lowest-end jobs got demand by the ton, And something must cut the supply, so we moo!

"We need to know our hires are comfortable being part of a herd. We're low-ego, and we know that no one can do it alone. We're scrappy, and we'll crawl to get where we're going if we have to. No one is so important that they should stand up by themselves while everyone else is doing the hard work of moving forward."

I think I need to go take a shower now.

Memes aside, it sounds like this was a student job, which makes me think this was more "college kid screwing around" than "corporate toxicity".

Power abuse is still power abuse. :/

Yeah, absolutely. But the type matters to the kind of solution.

I think I’d crawl and moo in an interview if my future direct manager did it first. If it’s so important then they shouldn’t have a problem doing it. I would mostly do it for the story of telling someone I did.

This is depressingly accurate but nowhere near the worst thing I've seen on there.

The headline or the interview? I've heard my share of interview hells, but I don't think aything tops crawling and moo'ing.

Both.

I had one weird one. I once interviewed for a gay social network which was going under because they didn't have any engineers left. I am not gay. They tried to convert me. I politely said that while I have nothing but respect for the gay community, I am simply not gay. They said I wasn't the sort of person they were looking for then and said "shoo along then!".

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