"young padawan", "you're just a number", "your lot in life is to...", "you're inferior"
Really?
Why are you playing the bully here with people younger than you?
You obviously have personal issues: you use the fact that you're conducting interviews to feel "superior", to believe it's not an equal transaction, etc. Who the fk do you think you are to try to make youngsters feel inferior by bullying them with such sentences?
I agree that, when you're experienced and have actually delivered impressive things (technically impressive, that it failed is not a problem as long as it didn't fail because of technical issue), potential employers / interviewers will look at what you did and think: "This guy means business" (as in "he's good").
I've been both interviewee and interviewer and I didn't use riddles to determine people's "way of thinking".
And that's where I disagree with you...
It's not because I don't need to answer to (sadly too often silly) interview questions anymore that I do consider it "normal" for interviewers to do riddles and to consider applications as "numbers".
You don't get it about the offer either: some interviewees won't let you even make the offer because they'll politely (or sometimes not so politely) give you the finger way before you have the opportunity to be the one deciding. If it has never happened to you then you haven't interviewed nearly enough people. If it already happened to you, then it destroys your argumentation...
I can see all too clearly the type of person you are: you are feeling "superior" not because of your skills or what but because of your age and your position in the company, which "allows" you to conduct interviews. Which you love all too much because it gives you the impression to be "superior".
Also be careful with the patronizing: there are still a few of us entrepreneurs around here older than you and you should not generalize about HN being all about people in their 20s or even 30s.
Why are you playing the bully here with people younger than you?
Because a great many young grads need to hear it. A great many have been told they are special all their lives and can't take someone dispensing the fact that they aren't. You only need look at the replies to my (admittedly, and by design, harsh) comment to see this.
My comment is designed to serve a purpose. If it gets one person to realize where they are and what they should do to get where they want, great. I'm personally not concerned if it offends 40 other people along the way - it's a net positive for one young man/woman.
Really?
Why are you playing the bully here with people younger than you?
You obviously have personal issues: you use the fact that you're conducting interviews to feel "superior", to believe it's not an equal transaction, etc. Who the fk do you think you are to try to make youngsters feel inferior by bullying them with such sentences?
I agree that, when you're experienced and have actually delivered impressive things (technically impressive, that it failed is not a problem as long as it didn't fail because of technical issue), potential employers / interviewers will look at what you did and think: "This guy means business" (as in "he's good").
I've been both interviewee and interviewer and I didn't use riddles to determine people's "way of thinking".
And that's where I disagree with you...
It's not because I don't need to answer to (sadly too often silly) interview questions anymore that I do consider it "normal" for interviewers to do riddles and to consider applications as "numbers".
You don't get it about the offer either: some interviewees won't let you even make the offer because they'll politely (or sometimes not so politely) give you the finger way before you have the opportunity to be the one deciding. If it has never happened to you then you haven't interviewed nearly enough people. If it already happened to you, then it destroys your argumentation...
I can see all too clearly the type of person you are: you are feeling "superior" not because of your skills or what but because of your age and your position in the company, which "allows" you to conduct interviews. Which you love all too much because it gives you the impression to be "superior".
Also be careful with the patronizing: there are still a few of us entrepreneurs around here older than you and you should not generalize about HN being all about people in their 20s or even 30s.