Wandering Adventure Party

Thinking back to the time I was being interviewed by a recruiter from Spotify, who asked me if I was in the Eastern time zone. When I said I wasn’t, they explained to me they could only hire from the Eastern time zone because everywhere else was too far away to overlap with their European offices. Trying to cheerfully explain to them that there were, in fact, time zones east of Eastern time did not go over quite as well as I had anticipated.

Well, that technical interview was a disaster. I’m glad it happened on an application for short term role. It’s a good reminder that the type of question companies say they’re going yo test you on might not be anything like the questions they ultimately ask, though.