<story><title>My startup failed, then I found out I was unemployable</title><url>https://davesullivan.is/my_startup_failed_then_i_found_out_i_was_unemployable.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>everdrive</author><text>&amp;gt;Hmmmm. The article drips with anger and cynicism, and hints at a few bitter opinions like &amp;quot;...companies I had ideological issues around...&amp;quot; It&amp;#x27;s hard to judge someone from an article, but if 5% of this sentiment bled through in an interview, I&amp;#x27;d take a hard pass too. I just don&amp;#x27;t want to work with difficult, unhappy people.&lt;p&gt;I find a sentiment like this pretty scary. Being competent at a job is not relevant, but just whether or not the interviewer subjectively likes you.</text></item><item><author>stickfigure</author><text>Hmmmm. The article drips with anger and cynicism, and hints at a few bitter opinions like &amp;quot;...companies I had ideological issues around...&amp;quot; It&amp;#x27;s hard to judge someone from an article, but if 5% of this sentiment bled through in an interview, I&amp;#x27;d take a hard pass too. I just don&amp;#x27;t want to work with difficult, unhappy people.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s a strange tone to take? The buried lede is: &amp;quot;[I] travel around and work as a digital nomad. I&amp;#x27;ve been doing that for a couple of years now and I work an average of 2.5 days per week on machine learning or web projects and have rebuilt my savings and my whole life.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;That sounds incredible! Like, the article should be titled &amp;quot;I&amp;#x27;m winning at life&amp;quot;.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>freedomben</author><text>I don&amp;#x27;t disagree, but have you never worked with a person whose personality was a clash?  It&amp;#x27;s a nightmare.  I&amp;#x27;ve quit jobs just to get away from people before.&lt;p&gt;One of my top criteria for accepting a job is whether I like the interviewers.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m not hardcore in the &amp;quot;asshole geniuses should die&amp;quot; crowd, but if you are a miserable person to be around, go find a job where you work solo.  Don&amp;#x27;t drag your whole team down.</text></comment>
<story><title>My startup failed, then I found out I was unemployable</title><url>https://davesullivan.is/my_startup_failed_then_i_found_out_i_was_unemployable.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>everdrive</author><text>&amp;gt;Hmmmm. The article drips with anger and cynicism, and hints at a few bitter opinions like &amp;quot;...companies I had ideological issues around...&amp;quot; It&amp;#x27;s hard to judge someone from an article, but if 5% of this sentiment bled through in an interview, I&amp;#x27;d take a hard pass too. I just don&amp;#x27;t want to work with difficult, unhappy people.&lt;p&gt;I find a sentiment like this pretty scary. Being competent at a job is not relevant, but just whether or not the interviewer subjectively likes you.</text></item><item><author>stickfigure</author><text>Hmmmm. The article drips with anger and cynicism, and hints at a few bitter opinions like &amp;quot;...companies I had ideological issues around...&amp;quot; It&amp;#x27;s hard to judge someone from an article, but if 5% of this sentiment bled through in an interview, I&amp;#x27;d take a hard pass too. I just don&amp;#x27;t want to work with difficult, unhappy people.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s a strange tone to take? The buried lede is: &amp;quot;[I] travel around and work as a digital nomad. I&amp;#x27;ve been doing that for a couple of years now and I work an average of 2.5 days per week on machine learning or web projects and have rebuilt my savings and my whole life.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;That sounds incredible! Like, the article should be titled &amp;quot;I&amp;#x27;m winning at life&amp;quot;.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pc86</author><text>Feel free to quote the area where the GP said competency is irrelevant.&lt;p&gt;There are tens or hundreds of thousands of skilled developers in the world, there&amp;#x27;s no reason to work with bitter, angry people.</text></comment>