This was as boring and mediocre as they come, I had expected much more from an iconic corporation -- After the typical upload-your-resume-to-our-outdated-cms I got a call from a recruiter and scheduled an interview in Markham The interviewer was a 20+year veteran of the company along with someone whom I can only describe as his lackey; they were shamelessly underprepared for any sort of meaningful engagement and didn't even seem to be aware that a candidate was in the office based on their demeanour The primary fellow, a 20+year veteran with a list of accolades as long as Jack Kerouac's manuscript was wearing a grey t-shirt and jeans and was the very face of festering suburban corporate entitlement, to such an extent that he was totally oblivious and thought he was actually being approachable I had prepared to the best of my abilities and dressed professionally; they couldn't even return the courtesy of following customary interview protocol -- of course I know it's cliché in the software industry by now and it's a complete joke but I wonder to this day: did he show up to his own interview all those years ago wearing a grey T-shirt? -- I somehow don't believe it, but here's a pseudocode implementation of my internal logic if(he did) { his standards haven't risen in 20+ years; } else if (he didn't) { his standards have slipped over 20+ years; } => either way: entitled and blindly, shamelessly so I rejected them during this interview, outright. The last thing I wanted was to spend any portion of my career working for this gray man in his gray world lest the entitlement rub off on me too, by association