Probably Swedeland

How are the illuminated clocks able to comprehend your presentation?

That’s not The Big Lebowski

Oh man, I had forgotten that they used to have that chocolate butt

You are a hero.

Ironically, many “normal” business practices truly are sinister.

Found ze German

LLMs are why we can’t have nice things.

I’ve interviewed people with Master’s degrees that couldn’t figure out how to put together a for loop.

Basic competencies need to be confirmed.

Fun read, great lesson.

Yeah, we flap our meat at each other for an hour or so. These days it’s usually over a video call rather than in the same room, but there’s little functional difference.

My employer has its own homebrewed interview segment to cover this. It’s more subjective than a standardized test, but it’s arguably more fun and less insulting (although that doesn’t stop some entitled candidates from getting all huffy about it).

To be fair, a surprising number of candidates make it to the live interview stage while lacking fundamental reading and arithmetic skills.

It was all an elaborate test.

I’ll stop when it stops being slop.

Great! Start with this, and slowly escalate every week or two until they stop perstering you.

Actually, it’s the other way around.

Do it

So what you’re saying is that we require additional pylons.

Only if you don’t know that “a lot” is two words.