Sure, but what I was trying to get at is: if you had a string of interviews that felt &quot;bad&quot;, and&#x2F;or rejections, that you would probably be a little sour, and that&#x27;s what I get from the article. It doesn&#x27;t strike me that the author is particularly socially inept.<p>As someone who watched previous coworkers, who are older, go through the interview ringer, I can sympathize with the author on the pigeonhole one can get stuck in due to seemingly trivial reasons: I don&#x27;t have a classic CS background, people think I&#x27;m past my prime, etc.<p>These aren&#x27;t imaginary problems, and I struggle to believe that I would be all &quot;go-getter&quot; and &quot;pull yourself up by your bootstraps&quot; after continually being rejected, too.