Turns out just being able to show up at the office interview wearing khaki pants and making eye contact with your future boss counts for more than optimizing graph trees via psychic technomancy.

Christ, that poor Intel engineer is probably out on the unemployment line right now

As someone with a degree in CompSci I hate how true this is. I knew so many brilliant programmers during my course that I had constant imposter syndrome... and 5 years out some of the ones I once regarded as the most talented still live with their parents because they can't pass the turing test equivalent of an interview lol

One person I knew in particular was so physically incapable of getting through a single conversation without whipping out some pretentious insult that he'd make both Gregory House and Sheldon Cooper look like sycophants by contrast, hahaha