>I need this internship
>Everyone knows
>Without experience, a CompSci meme degree is WorstValue toilet paper
>Even if your GPA is decent
>And THIS internship is at FlicTail
>Their reputation for only hiring the best software engineers is known industry-wide
>Experience here puts you above other grads when the time comes to join the real world
>I cannot
>CAN NOT
>Nay, WILL NOT
>fuck this up
>They want a video behavioral interview with a coding exercise
>no problem
>...
>InterviewPrep.exe: Tried to access unallocated memory 0x0000000000000005. The program will now terminate.
>Thanks to dorm life, my big ass PC is connected to the community big ass tv screen
>Not exactly professional.
>I could invest in myself and buy a laptop
>Or
>Haul my PC to an actual desk
>Or
>I could scrounge old PC parts out of my closet
>use a laundry basket as a case
>and join the interview from Arch installed on a flash drive
>in my kitchen
>YES! HAHAHA! YES!
>THE NEXT DAY
>Interview
>Suit 1/1 check
>Webcam, logitech 1/1 check
>Cobbled PC running on the table
>You bet your ass 1/1 check
>Time to get a job
>Join 15 minutes early
>Eminem memes
>Spaghetti, etc
>5 minutes past the scheduled time
>oh shit
>is any of this actually working
>Have I fucked myself
>with laziness
>and linux
>oh no
>nononono
>7 minutes past
>...
>...
>BeDoo~
>The screen shows your interviewer
"Heyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy~"
>Gaming chair
>Thigh highs
>A succubus?
>Wait is that a soldering station behind them?
>Penguin-chan stickers
>C++ Textbooks
>Rainbow Unicorn vomit everywhere
>huh
>As you take this all in
"Helllooooo, I'm Nicki~ I'll be interviewing youu as a candidate for our summer internships here at FlicTail! And youuuu are?"
>Taken aback
>Dumbstruck
>I am not Anon, I am an idiot who's about to blow my career
>before it started
>by making assumptions
>and saying dumb shit
>Ok I AM Anon
>Answer Anon
>"H-Hi, I-I'm Anon Y. Mous, a Sophomore at Humie State"
"Alriight, and why are you interested in working here at FlicTail"
>Ok I have this covered
>"Well, I've heard cool things about your technology stack and how it allows you deliver high quality streams to millions of customers without running up the DanuCloud bills to unsustainable levels."
"Ah, a good answer, but what's the REAL reason you want to work here? Hear good things about the free pair of employee programmer socks, and just haaaaaad to get a pair?"
>She shoots a smug grin tbrough the screen and lifts her knee to let you see the FlicTail branding on her thigh high socks.
>What is this?
>It's... nice, but
Hehheh
"Sorry, sorry, I'm kidding, but there are some other great reasons to work here besides the tech, such as working remote with equipment stipends, stock options, community events, office, the works"
>"Y-yeah, FlickTail's reputation is really well known"
>Let's just gloss over their reputation for stack ranking and layoffs for now
>Not a good time to bring that up
>The rest of the behavioral section is the usual questions
>Where do you see yourself... Weakness...
"When did you solve a problem in an unorthodox or novel manner and how did it go?"
>Aw hell why not, go off cowboy
>Point the camera at the laundry basket franken computer
>"Well, rather than move my PC to somwhere that isn't at a couch, I did this with spare parts."
>Her hand moves in front of her mouth and her knees make a break for her chest
>Laughter is clearly being stifled
"Ohhhh! My God! Nice, dude!"
"Did you install a whole copy of windows on a thumb drive, or..."
>"Arch."
>Her eyes light up
"Now that's how you do the wrong thing, right"
>"You bet!"
>"So if you want to know how well it went, you'll know before I do, but I'm here, it's working"
"Of course!"
>I reset the camera to its original place
"Well with that we'll move on to the whiteboard coding exercise..."