Technical Interview Performance by Editor, OS, and Language
If you&#x27;re an emacs user there&#x27;s nothing worse than doing an on-site interview where someone wants you to pair program using their editor. Nothing works right and you spend half the time flipper-handing it over the keys trying to remember how normal editors work.<p>Then again, it&#x27;s rare that I interview anymore. I&#x27;ve done maybe two of those kinds of (pair programming, someone else&#x27;s rig) interviews in the last ten years and neither was for a job that I really wanted after spending time with the devs conducting the interviews.<p>You want me to consult with you? Let me talk to your biz people to see if I&#x27;m the right person to solve your problems, and let the technical folk go over code I&#x27;ve written and we can deep dive on that if there is any question about my chops. Otherwise, fuck off. I&#x27;m too old to play &quot;dance monkey&quot;.