<story><title>Someone is pretending to be me</title><url>https://connortumbleson.com/2022/09/19/someone-is-pretending-to-be-me/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>blastwind</author><text>Andrew here. Connor, thanks for releasing this on the orange site.&lt;p&gt;This story is also more fun from my position. I&amp;#x27;ve been applying to internships and interviewing every week. They&amp;#x27;re mostly rejections. They&amp;#x27;re the same questions over and over with minor variation (sorry to top comment for &amp;quot;impersonating&amp;quot; your comment style). My days are deteriorating from a colorful sphere down to two points. In fact, down to two pointers, left and right, iterating over a list of heights to find how much rain water it can trap.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m about to repeat the experience for the 10th time and I&amp;#x27;m 100% on autopilot. But suddenly, a man reaches out to me on email and offers me up to $80&amp;#x2F;hr to be his senior engineer. This feels sketchy, my girlfriend tells me, &amp;quot;you&amp;#x27;re good but let&amp;#x27;s be honest here...&amp;quot;. Anyways, I proceed, it might just be the start of a beautiful thing. I&amp;#x27;m asked to interview as one of our developers because English is not their best language. I&amp;#x27;m a little bothered, but I was fine with it. But then I see the developer name: Connor Tumbleson. My laughter bursts and so does my suspicion: With a name like that, no way the guy doesn&amp;#x27;t speak good English. I look up Connor Tumbleson on linkedin, and my suspicions were proved correct. I detail everything to Connor, and now this is on the top of HN. I lost a opprotunity but gained a story of the lifetime.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>blastwind</author><text>Messages are only editable within 2 hrs so I write another message expressing my additional thoughts and thanks:&lt;p&gt;As important as having integrity is a community that prioritizes and fosters integrity. The HN community skipped the fostering part and went straight to giving me referrals and interviews. I&amp;#x27;m grateful, and I&amp;#x27;ll carry on the spirit when I&amp;#x27;m in the position to do so. The opportunities I&amp;#x27;ve derived are nothing but amazing, but the most important thing I&amp;#x27;ve learned is to internalize integrity as one of my greatest strengths: In the face of adversity and unfairness, I&amp;#x27;ll stand up for myself and others.&lt;p&gt;Also, thanks for those telling me internship finding is going to get better. I am not pessimistic about it at all, but I was trying to be funny by &amp;quot;impersonating&amp;quot; the previous top comment, it fits the theme. I find myself maniacally focused when practice algorithms, and I enjoy focusing.&lt;p&gt;This whole time of writing this I have that one scene from Scent of A Woman repeating in my head: &amp;quot;And I have seen boys like these, younger than these, their arms torn out, their legs ripped off. But there isn&amp;#x27;t nothin&amp;#x27; like the sight of an amputated spirit; there is no prosthetic for that.&amp;quot;</text></comment>
<story><title>Someone is pretending to be me</title><url>https://connortumbleson.com/2022/09/19/someone-is-pretending-to-be-me/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>blastwind</author><text>Andrew here. Connor, thanks for releasing this on the orange site.&lt;p&gt;This story is also more fun from my position. I&amp;#x27;ve been applying to internships and interviewing every week. They&amp;#x27;re mostly rejections. They&amp;#x27;re the same questions over and over with minor variation (sorry to top comment for &amp;quot;impersonating&amp;quot; your comment style). My days are deteriorating from a colorful sphere down to two points. In fact, down to two pointers, left and right, iterating over a list of heights to find how much rain water it can trap.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m about to repeat the experience for the 10th time and I&amp;#x27;m 100% on autopilot. But suddenly, a man reaches out to me on email and offers me up to $80&amp;#x2F;hr to be his senior engineer. This feels sketchy, my girlfriend tells me, &amp;quot;you&amp;#x27;re good but let&amp;#x27;s be honest here...&amp;quot;. Anyways, I proceed, it might just be the start of a beautiful thing. I&amp;#x27;m asked to interview as one of our developers because English is not their best language. I&amp;#x27;m a little bothered, but I was fine with it. But then I see the developer name: Connor Tumbleson. My laughter bursts and so does my suspicion: With a name like that, no way the guy doesn&amp;#x27;t speak good English. I look up Connor Tumbleson on linkedin, and my suspicions were proved correct. I detail everything to Connor, and now this is on the top of HN. I lost a opprotunity but gained a story of the lifetime.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kodah</author><text>Shout out to you for wading through the literal torrent of bullshit without the foresight of a blog post to expose context and with little professional experience to help inform you. You&amp;#x27;ll be a great asset to the industry but it can take a minute to find your footing. Be persistent and definitely keep this story around for beer Friday.</text></comment>