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Flunking my Anthropic interview again

(taylor.town)
369 points surprisetalk | 1 comments | 29 Aug 25 14:02 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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kashunstva ◴[29 Aug 25 14:44 UTC] No.45064812[source]▶
I have no idea to what extent Anthropic or other employers delve into prospective candidates’ blogs; but this strikes me as too much self-disclosure for one’s own good. We all have idiosyncrasies; but calling oneself weird on a now widely published blog article seems like it risks defeating the goal of making oneself an ideal candidate for many job opportunities. Look, many of my own eccentricities have been (net) valuable to be professionally and personally, but it was probably better they be revealed “organically” rather than through a public act of self-disclosure.
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amarcheschi ◴[29 Aug 25 15:07 UTC] No.45065126[source]▶
I still have to meet a person in computer science who isn't weird
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joshdavham ◴[29 Aug 25 15:14 UTC] No.45065232[source]▶
Most CS people I know aren’t weird and are actually pretty corporate and conformist. But at the same time, the people I know who do open source are some of the weirdest people I know haha
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1. okwhateverdude ◴[29 Aug 25 20:01 UTC] No.45068730[source]▶
I'll take an eclectic bunch of weirdos who all do and like cool shit over the corpo conformist normies any day. Super easy to suss out who is who when you first meet them. Just ask what they like to do when they aren't laboring under the thumb of capitalism. The cool people will talk your ear off about some esoteric whatever.