A poor horndog developer started bothering me with useless appreciations like «Oh, a female developer, such a rarity...»
After some chatting he asked me: «How tall are you?»
My answer was: «2FuF8A, find the correct decoding by yourself».
It is "1,67" encoded in Base58 (because Base64 is too mainstream).
He never came back with the solution.

@Frederick Check your privelege

To be fair a female developer is a rarity, still a lame approach but I've seen worse.

I switched from marketing to CS (complete with a three year degree, no Bootcamp). I still went to interviews as you'd expect a marketing man to go; in a suit. Commence the weirdest interview.

$I: interviewer
$M: Me

I: "You're not the typical engineer. Can you talk to real engineers?"

M: "could you elaborate"

I:"you're dressed in a suit. That leads me to think you're a MS user. Do you think you could talk to real, ie. Linux using engineers?"

M: " well, I haven't used windows in about a year soo..

I: "Mac isn't Linux."

M: "I'm aware. I've switched to Ubuntu so I could use KVM-QEMU android emulator with GPU pass through to train Deep Convolution Networks on mobile devices. Also had to compile Google's internal build tool because it had bugs I had to fix so I could compile the APK."

I: "ah, Ubuntu eh? **Insert Smirk** How about a follow-up?"

M: "no, I'm switching to Gentoo this week and would like to talk to real engineers about that."

I thanked him for the coffee and left.

@polaroidkidd this should be it's own rant

@JKyll Yes, but that's just how the conversation started, and after some minutes he wanted to know details about my physical aspect...

@xonya what can I say people get desperate and good female devs are smart so he just probably found it like a rare chance, but set himself up to be cringy.

I study at an WOMEN'S ONLY uni (rare af) ,😀 and 98% of the devs I know are females ❤️.
They are not THAT rare.

@polaroidkidd hmmm good point. I got a good suit when I was a teenager but it still fits well enough. So I’ve worn a suit to every interview ever, shit job or real job. But unless it’s at IBM or a government job it’s probably not the best idea to wear one to a dev interview lol.

@polaroidkidd I'd honestly really get snarky at such a moronic interviewer, and I wouldn't let anyone badmouth me for dressing up.

What my reply would be to that Microsoft remark:

"Ah yes sir I can manage all kinds of Linux servers - web-, VPN-, SSH- (and manage keys), and mailservers. My distribution stack is Arch Linux, Ubuntu Server, Proxmox VE and Raspbian Lite among others (such as Gentoo but I didn't really like its source build process being a requirement for the whole system). Not only that, I've also got experience with building my own Linux systems from upstream kernel source and musl + busybox for userspace. Am I still your average Windows user? ^^
As for the suit.. I thought I'd dress up for this job opportunity, but you're most certainly right. It was the wrong choice."

I know that with such a remark I'd lose any ability to get the job, but I wouldn't ever let a stupid interviewer talk trash on me for dressing up, and just dressing however the fuck I want to begin with. And it's not like I'd want to work in the same company as such a stupid interviewer anyway.