Episode Description

How to handle job interviews. Merlin and Dan can't solve the problem of interviews being dumb, but Merlin will tell you what is wrong with you, how long you'll have to wait for your resume to get you a job, how Larry Wall interviews for a Perl job, and whether or not the answer is always Yes, like they were just telling Stephen (yes, Hawking).

Episode Information

Initially Released September 27, 2011

Runtime 1 hour 34 minutes

Episode Page Why My Pants Were On Fire

Recurring Topics and Characters

• Job Interviews

• Resumes

• Programming Languages

• Dan is Opaque

Discussion

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Quotes

I just don't think it's fair of Siracusa to make such a big deal about how your emails make literally no sense. Why would he say that?
-Merlin, about receiving an empty email with a subject line containing "two nouns" from Dan.

You're like if curtains had curtains. You know? You open 'em and there's just more curtains. Then you keep opening, there's another set of curtains and then there's a sheet that says "Well, that's fine with me."
-Merlin, on Dan's opacity.

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