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Eddy Vluggen wrote: For what? For simply doing his work?
It's just courteous. 
Besides, it's an opportunity to address some questions that didn't come up in the interview, etc.
Marc
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Marc Clifton wrote: It's just courteous.
It's hypocrit. An employer is someone who wants to trade money for my time. One does not owe the other anything. Instead of thanking the employer for his time, I expect to be thanked to take the effort to look at yet another "great opportunity".
Courteous is when they do not thank me but compensate my time, as one has to invest to hear the "opportunity".
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Eddy Vluggen wrote: An employer is someone who wants to trade money for my time.
Well yes, when you put it like that. But there's still a human being doing the interview.
Eddy Vluggen wrote: I expect to be thanked to take the effort to look at yet another "great opportunity".
I was.
Marc
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Marc Clifton wrote: But there's still a human being doing the interview.
So, the correct phrase is "thank you for being (mostly) homo sapiens sapiens"?
It is nonsense to thank the salesman for taking time for the sale, as much as it is nonsense for the salesman to thank the customer. It is a false courtesy, aka sucking up.
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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They probably didn't even want you, but company policy dictates they should at least interview x people a month/year.
In this case it's their loss, really.
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Marc's problem is that he's not a gay black female handicapped veteran on welfare. And he has cats.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote: And he has cats.
And even worse, no guns! 
Marc
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Believe it or not, I don't really like guns, but I like being a potential victim even less.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote: Marc's problem is that he's not a gay black female handicapped veteran on welfare.
How do you know that??? 
If it's not broken, fix it until it is.
Everything makes sense in someone's mind.
Ya can't fix stupid.
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I was wondering the same, just about the cat-part
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Marc Clifton wrote: "please don't ask me questions that I can google the answer for."
"..and get my own articles." I guess you (it seems wisely) omitted to mention your authorship of 200 articles on CP alone.
Peter Wasser
"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts." - Bertrand Russell
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pwasser wrote: I guess you (it seems wisely) omitted to mention your authorship of 200 articles on CP alone.
Actually I didn't (omit that). It's on my resume, and it came up with regards to how I document code -- I love writing!
Marc
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I was giving the interviewer the benefit of the doubt. You have removed the doubt.
Peter Wasser
"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts." - Bertrand Russell
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One should always be happy to make such experiences: Seeing how dumb the world is can be sad - but can also make one happy to realize one isn't as stupid as one might feel from time to time.
Still frustrating. Be glad they did not make a better impression and you took it - you would have ended up in hell!
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Florian Rappl wrote: Be glad they did not make a better impression and you took it
Indeed. It's always a good thing when a company's incompetence and/or asshattery is on full display during the interview.
That's what the thank you note is for.
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Florian Rappl wrote: you would have ended up in hell
Over my 30 years doing this, about 1/2 the clients/employees I've worked for fit in the hell category. This one had many of the signs, the biggest one being that the purpose of this team is to rewrite ancient apps that are monolithic, buggy, no code sharing, etc., and even worse, older programmers (and users!) that don't want to change to newer languages and systems.
Marc
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"Can you tell me the difference between an interface and an abstract class?"
*click*
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F-ES Sitecore wrote: "Can you tell me the difference between an interface and an abstract class?"
 That was his first question "What's the difference between a struct, class, and interface" !!!
Which is what prompted the "please don't ask me junior dev questions that anyone can google the answer for."
I actually should have walked out right then. But I'm a nice guy. I was told by the recruiter that the team lead is rather green when it comes to interviewing.
Marc
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Structs are used to jack up[^] car tires with correct? 
That should've been your answer.
Jeremy Falcon
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Bummer, dude. Commiseration is ![Rose | [Rose]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/rose.gif)
If I had an experience like that, I think I would assume it was the head-hunter's fault for not giving me the information that it was a teleconference interview. And, given my experience ... long ago ... with headhunters' headhunger, I would suspect a deliberate omission.
If (ye godz forbid) I ever enter the job market again, your experience is a good cautionary tale I will keep in mind.
cheers, Bill
«There is a spectrum, from "clearly desirable behaviour," to "possibly dodgy behavior that still makes some sense," to "clearly undesirable behavior." We try to make the latter into warnings or, better, errors. But stuff that is in the middle category you don’t want to restrict unless there is a clear way to work around it.» Eric Lippert, May 14, 2008
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I see a Windows 10 logo [^].
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LOL Took a second to see it.
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lol... quite an observation ![Java | [Coffee]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/coffee.gif)
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My "Resident Old Lady With a Laptop" had another problem this morning - her lappy screen had shrunk, lots. So I drive over there to find out why. Screen resolution changed - no longer her native 1360 x 768, it's shrunk to 1024 x 768, leave in two inch wide black bars right and left. And why is that? because it forced the Anniversary Edition update on her last night... 
Two minutes to diagnose and fix, 60 more minutes to get out of the building...
Stop doing this MS! Please?
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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MS forced an update to the Missus' laptop yesterday. She doesn't have a lot of time in the evenings and had to pay some bills. Right in the middle of it, the update started and presto, she couldn't use it for the rest of the evening... 
Guess who was not a happy camper?
WHAT? Lend her mine? Never, ever! She likes installing all kinds of crapware (guess who has to clean it up btw!). No way I'm gonna let her near my computer. If I want crap installed, I'll do it myself, thank you very much!
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the time
modified 7-Oct-16 8:50am.
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