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The diver is the only one with any claim to honest stress, among these particular examples.

Catastrophic decompression is not to be trifled with.

  I used to care much more. I used to try to help them. Try
  to make them feel good. But I can talk and talk, explain 
  and explain, in the end we won’t hire you if you can’t 
  reverse a linked list, or do a case-insensitive string 
  comparison. I have done this so many times, I'm terribly 
  frustrated about this. So now if you fuck up here, I’ll 
  just let you talk for 20 minutes, say “uh huh” once in a 
  while and review code in the meantime. And then I’ll ask 
  you about “your most interesting project so far” or some 
  bullshit like that.

Bah ha ha ha! This has totally happened to me on a number of interviews, but I've never interviewed for Google.

  ...you will have 3 interviews of 45 minutes, lunch, and 2 
  more interviews. These are basically the same as phone 
  screens, but you get to see the interviewers face to face.
  
  If you totally suck, they sometimes walk you out after 
  lunch, and skip the last two interviews.

Oh my lol! I have also been hurriedly walked out of interviews! I cannot stop laughing while reading this.

  ...the interviewer would rather stab himself than hear you 
  fail again. So he lets you tell a story while he zones 
  out. In his rating, he will give you the lowest possible 
  score, and this will end the interview process for you.

Oh man, so good. This made my day, because I've been on both sides of this animosity, and honesty about the realities of interviewing is refreshing. Grueling, tedious, tiresome processes make such animals of us all.

Interviewing sucks. The reason interviewing sucks is the exact same reason why direct sales and cold calls sucks. It's painful for everyone involved.

I go into every interview assuming that the interviewer just hates my guts, and have learned to pretty much laugh off failure, because fuck it. Also, when I get a sense that I'm very obviously failing, I've taken to deliberately failing spectacularly, at least to the amusement (or shocked dismay) of everyone in the room. When you know you're bombing, that's when bombing spectacularly can become the most fun.

All my worst interviews have taught me to go home and do some research on the glaring holes in my knowledge that I was just tested on. The more you interview, the more you'll tighten up for your next shot. Just keep interviewing. Something will stick eventually.

Also, it's hard to take this advice seriously, when the title of the article engages in polite self-censorship by partially masking foul language with asterisks.

But what about downvotes and hellbans?

  Gee, you guize! Oh noes, scarey people is 
  doing bad, bad tings, and let's all worry now!
  Police no can help! Meesuh gonna die now???

Is there a particular reason why the 5 o'clock news is dumbed down to non-verbal pre-schooler degrees of retardation? I mean this is like Barney The Purple Dinosaur "2 + 2 is 4" level informative.

  "...AND NO ONE KNOWS WHAT IT IS!"

Bullshit. That is a fucking lie. What's the next segment going to be? Strange lights in the sky, and maybe they're space aliens? Thanks for nothing, "journalists."

Someone knows exactly what it is, and where it came from, and they're just not permitted to explain on public channels, because classified. This is just an all-points-bulletin to make sure an otherwise disinformed citizenry starts reporting on a type of crime that they might've been previously unfamiliar with.

Google Glass represents yet another bar set by the ever-evolving shitty arms race of the invasive miserable grind of the human social condition.

If there's any proof that only the machines will survive in a world where we used machines to kill each other off, it will be our inability to collectively resist the unnecessary escalation that Google Glass represents.