No Starch Press interview questions

I had two lovely interviews with the lovely person who would have been my supervisor before meeting with the CEO. I have never in my life had a job interview like that one, and I hope I never do again. He started by asking me which parts of the publishing catalog interested me and cut off my answer after a few words to tell me that no one cared about the books I was mentioning, and that the hacker stuff was really where it was at. We spent about 15 minutes with him talking at me aggressively about how if I didn't have experience with hacking, I would suck at the job, and that "none of those kind of guys would take me seriously because you're a little blonde girl" so I better know exactly what I was talking about when it came to the tech stuff. I believe the only questions I was actually asked were about my interest level and experience with hacking- nothing about my actual qualifications for the job. The role was for events and marketing, which I had plenty of experience with, and I think I got about 7 words in edgewise. It was a genuinely horrible, sexist experience and I felt like I needed to take a shower afterward to get it all off me. I had been told that if the meeting with the CEO went well that I would get an offer, and he left the room by saying that "if I did some research and learned anything about the world of hacking, we could continue to talk." I removed myself from the hiring process. I'm leaving this review to add to the existing warnings to not touch this place with a ten foot pole.

There was phone interview first, then an in-depth in person interview that went over for a while. They were going to call me within a week. Took longer only to be told that they made the position more junior than originally planned, and they'll keep my resume on file. Which was really interesting considering how they emphasized that the negative reviews of company were from people who were too junior to be there.