the thing is i do use trigonometry regularly as a game programmer but only in an instinctive half-understood kind of way like a frightful amount of this is just me adding or subtracting halves of PI until the thingies on my screen spin the way i need them to
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at the end of the interview if they say “do you have any questions for me?” do not ask them things you want to know the answer to, instead ask them domain-specific and firm-specific things that demonstrate you’ve researched the company and know what they’re doing in there
I think the secret to HR interviews is to fill up all available conversation-space with noise such that you're talking about yourself while also implicitly talking about the job. I think you also want to pre-emptively answer questions they might have if there's something odd about your background.
Like, if it says the job requires risk management and you have a resume gap or weak work history and they ask you to talk about a mistake you've made say that you used to be too adverse to risk and it held you back but then you realized that risk is a powerful tool that can be applied in a systematic and intelligent way to amplify outcomes.
You basically want to do spoken word poetry that answers the questions while also hitting as many job listing keywords and industry jargon-terms as possible, the success outcome is to make yourself sound like a pleasant-enough person who is also the Job incarnate in human form.











