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Pretend to and/or be motivated by things other than money, that’s the strongest thing interviewers drop people from, even though they’re motivated by money to be there.


Interesting. I genuinely do not care about money.

The motivation of money is literally zero to me. Maybe that's a problem as well: they want people who Are motivated by money acting like they aren't?

I wanted in because I saw them doing exciting impactful things That's literally it.

I dunno. I've been struggling with this for decades


Just act hard for the duration of the interview season.


That's the key really. It's all kayfabe. I saw Kilo as a win too from the product announcement.

I told myself about ten years ago that I need to move when I see things I get that intuition on. But I haven't figured out how to get in the door yet.




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