{"id":20983,"date":"2008-09-04T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-04T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2008\/09\/04\/tales-from-the-interview-lunch-is-not-a-competition-episode-2\/"},"modified":"2008-09-04T10:00:00","modified_gmt":"2008-09-04T10:00:00","slug":"tales-from-the-interview-lunch-is-not-a-competition-episode-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20080904-00\/?p=20983","title":{"rendered":"Tales from the interview: Lunch is not a competition, episode 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/oldnewthing\/archive\/2008\/09\/03\/8920995.aspx\"> Last time<\/a>, we saw the consequences of failing to recognize that lunch is not a competition. Today we&#8217;ll see an even more unfortunate result.<\/p>\n<p> One candidate went to lunch with my colleague <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/oldnewthing\/archive\/2008\/01\/21\/7181075.aspx\"> the economist<\/a>. (Claim to fame: &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.jennavonoy.com\/\">Jenna von O&yuml;<\/a> is my cousin!&#8221;) They went to a local Thai restaurant, Thai being a very popular cuisine here in the Seattle area. The afternoon interviews showed a marked change for the worse from the morning interviews, and the afternoon interviewers began to ask, &#8220;What happened at lunch? The candidate was doing really well in the morning, but in the afternoon, had difficulty concentrating and didn&#8217;t look all that well.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p> My colleague fessed up. &#8220;Yeah, sorry about that. We went to a Thai restaurant, and for some reason, ordering lunch turned into a competition. I&#8217;m not really that good with spicy food, and obviously neither is the candidate, but somehow our competitive natures took over and we ended up trying to one-up each other with how spicy we could order the dishes, and, well, you can see what happened. If it&#8217;s any consolation, I&#8217;m not feeling all that great either.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p> I don&#8217;t know what the resolution to the situation was, but I hope the candidate was given a second chance. <\/p>\n<p> Remember, folks, lunch is not a competition. You will not be evaluated on the strength of your stomach lining. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last time, we saw the consequences of failing to recognize that lunch is not a competition. Today we&#8217;ll see an even more unfortunate result. One candidate went to lunch with my colleague the economist. (Claim to fame: &#8220;Jenna von O&yuml; is my cousin!&#8221;) They went to a local Thai restaurant, Thai being a very popular [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[103],"class_list":["post-20983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-non-computer"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Last time, we saw the consequences of failing to recognize that lunch is not a competition. Today we&#8217;ll see an even more unfortunate result. One candidate went to lunch with my colleague the economist. (Claim to fame: &#8220;Jenna von O&yuml; is my cousin!&#8221;) They went to a local Thai restaurant, Thai being a very popular [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20983\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}