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Wish I played that interview game better. I saw the success coming from a mile away (2022) but I can't vibe with people in the hire game right. It's like eye contact, smiling, facial expressions, stuff like that.

I guess there's a bunch of tools to not suck at this. Anyone had success here? The AI tools say I'm great because they can't pick up the kind of problems I'm talking about.

 help



Pretend to and/or be motivated by things other than money, that’s the strongest thing interviewers drop people from, even though they’re motivated by money to be there.

Interesting. I genuinely do not care about money.

The motivation of money is literally zero to me. Maybe that's a problem as well: they want people who Are motivated by money acting like they aren't?

I wanted in because I saw them doing exciting impactful things That's literally it.

I dunno. I've been struggling with this for decades


Just act hard for the duration of the interview season.

That's the key really. It's all kayfabe. I saw Kilo as a win too from the product announcement.

I told myself about ten years ago that I need to move when I see things I get that intuition on. But I haven't figured out how to get in the door yet.


What exactly did you predict in 2022?

I can call the winners but then I go with the losers



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