He has a lot of red-flags:

- Bringing over and over again that "he was an official of the US army"

- the "you didnt reject me, I reject you" spiel, although this part was hilarious to be fair,for being so childish.

- The part when "he bit his tongue" before answering to the kid. What does he think he had to answer?

- The "one person Christian company" thing

And I got bored, he sounds like a "Prima-Donna" too. The post is an exquisite example of projecting in action.

It was the air force. And anyone who can graduate from an engineering program (and lacks a drug-use history or whatever probably) can probably qualify for that. They recruit pretty aggressively at universities.

He did make an unnecessarily-specific statement about being a lt. colonel at one point, but I don't know that it's a hard rank to get to. I though it was more the point at which career officers got stuck.

Yeah Lt. Col is fairly easy to reach if you "do your time". Colonel is much more difficult and requires a bit of luck and General is impossible unless you have General friends (seriously, you'll never make general unless another general grooms you and vouches for you)

An engineer mindset is often blind to the complexity and skill that goes into good management of people. It occurs to me that working alone is a good way to optimize one's engineering skills and not have to bother with thinking about how to create and sustain good teams.

Check out step 9 of this blog post he wrote to get an idea of how he treats trans people: http://zipcpu.com/blog/2020/11/26/zipcpu-biz.html

I would imagine that there are potential communication obstacles to overcome for anyone choosing to work with him.

> The following is copied from my response to him, with a few minor edits along the way.

This is probably the most important line of the post for context. The latter 70% is a copy/paste of an email response he sent to a job applicant who said he wanted to do design, not verification. Presumably this copy/paste is almost the entirety of his response because the post ends the way you would expect an email to end, with a signature.

I don't know the full situation, but I'm imagining the candidate said "not quite what I'm looking for" and got this guys life story in response, along with insinuations that he's a Prima Donna, and judgments like "If you are a design engineer who can’t humble himself enough to verify a broken design that’s been given to you, then I foresee that you will also be difficult to manage."

He might be a nice guy, I don't know. But from what I see of this interaction, he was acting like an asshole.

I upvoted you. Verification engineer and design engineer are sadly 2 different things. I could do both, but I don’t like e and specman for verification and wouldn’t take verification job. Plus this guy is ex-army, I worked with few of this kind. Their people and technology skills were rudimentary. Army is very hierarchical and nobody questions dumb tasks. Sadly engineers do and become Prima Donnas. I can’t deny, that difficult individuals exist, but that’s how real world works. There are no groups in my flour without famous jerk in it in big Corp I work for.

Repeated “formal methods” but I never learned what that meant, by the end of the article.

That’s ok. I went deeper, and pretty much still don’t get it.