It’s funny as that was my experience interviewing with companies between 1998-2000. Just insane business models but brazen confidence in themselves.
I remember interviewing with a company in 2000 that had burned through like $40 in two years. This was New York and they hired IBM. I don’t remember their product but it was stupid. They had paid IBM to build their own custom app server for Java because their requirements were too specific for WebSphere that IBM made. They built their own internal Java app server from scratch.
So that was stupid.
Also the interview was on a Tuesday or something and they said that they were out of money on Friday but were confident they would get more money on Monday.
They wanted me to start immediately and when I turned them down because of the funding, they asked if I would start on Monday.
It was such a surreal experience that a whole organization could be so crazy.
> Also the interview was on a Tuesday or something and they said that they were out of money on Friday but were confident they would get more money on Monday.
> They wanted me to start immediately and when I turned them down because of the funding, they asked if I would start on Monday.
Is is straight out of a comedy sketch, I feel like you could take that to an open mic night and kill with it.
Building a custom server does not sound so crazy. If you ever used Websphere you would probably think the same. I was at one of those crazy Internet startups you referred to and we ran a trial of Websphere for a while. It was some of the slowest, most resource-intensive software I've ever used. By the end we all referred to it as "the pig."
I remember interviewing with a company in 2000 that had burned through like $40 in two years. This was New York and they hired IBM. I don’t remember their product but it was stupid. They had paid IBM to build their own custom app server for Java because their requirements were too specific for WebSphere that IBM made. They built their own internal Java app server from scratch.
So that was stupid.
Also the interview was on a Tuesday or something and they said that they were out of money on Friday but were confident they would get more money on Monday.
They wanted me to start immediately and when I turned them down because of the funding, they asked if I would start on Monday.
It was such a surreal experience that a whole organization could be so crazy.