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The original was posted on /r/tifu by /u/PIeiades33 on 2025-10-21 08:07:34+00:00.
I had a software engineering interview and it was a 5 round interview with the first being a technical interview. They flew me out to their office and put me up in a hotel.
For those who don’t know, a technical interview generally involves coding a solution to a given problem that finishes as fast as possible with respect to the input size.
My solution relied on heaps deleting on log(n) time if you have a reference to the node you are deleting. When the interviewer saw this, he said “hmm I don’t think you can do that, can you show me?” So I drew out the process. He googles it and says “hmm I don’t think you can do that”. Anyways I now am fumbling but eventually get to the solution he was thinking of with some help.
I do the rest of the interviews and they went great. Despite that, the first interview still bugged me so while waiting for the uber to take me home, I decided to google the question, and saw I was right. I felt that I just needed to rant about it so I called my girlfriend and just started going off. I was loudly complaining about “what kind of idiot senior engineer doesn’t know this?” “this is such bs” “how are you so dumb that you google it and still get it wrong?” “I fkin hate that guy so much”
While I’m going off, I look up from my phone for a bit and the interviewer happened to walk by on his way to get coffee. He just kind of glanced at me and walked away.
Needless to say, I didn’t get the job. When I asked why, it was because of “cultural differences” and because “I didn’t want the job enough”. So I can’t be sure, but I don’t think my rant helped.
TL;DR: I complained about my interviewer and he just happened to hear it. I did not get the job.