{"id":6956,"date":"2017-08-03T15:22:45","date_gmt":"2017-08-03T15:22:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/?p=6956"},"modified":"2017-07-10T15:27:43","modified_gmt":"2017-07-10T15:27:43","slug":"linked-my-interview-with-apple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2017\/08\/03\/linked-my-interview-with-apple\/","title":{"rendered":"Linked: &#8220;My Interview with Apple&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:2773,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/cultofmac.blogspot.com\\\/2005\\\/02\\\/my-interview-with-apple.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20231125214323\\\/https:\\\/\\\/cultofmac.blogspot.com\\\/2005\\\/02\\\/my-interview-with-apple.html&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-11-04 01:41:07&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-12-24 00:10:19&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-12-30 20:08:38&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-01-06 13:12:22&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-01-23 08:13:09&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-01-26 12:52:33&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-02 01:08:04&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-26 12:57:25&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404}],&quot;broken&quot;:true,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-26 12:57:25&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cultofmac.blogspot.com\/2005\/02\/my-interview-with-apple.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">via Cult of Mac (Blogspot)<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;ve ever stumbled through an interview like that in my life. I was so nervous, and all the waiting and panicking in general didn&#8217;t add much placidity to my state of mind. Working for Apple is a dream for me, and all I could do was crack jokes. Nervous habit. Rely on your humor, Dan. Except I had nothing to offer this time. The jokes weren&#8217;t even top notch. I mean, I swear I think I even tried bribing them with free Super Bowl tickets. I can&#8217;t remember if they even cracked a smile at that one. Not that I didn&#8217;t make them laugh at all.. I&#8217;m a funny guy, but I think I came off more&#8230; I don&#8217;t know.. strung out\/hyper\/rush this guy some methadone, than say, congenial. Likeable. Hirable. At least I remembered to put my resume\/app\/release in a folder. Which reminds me of an exchange I had with Amy that went something like this:\u00a0<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Linking to this one for posterity. Dan reported to me at Apple. Never knew he had this blog or\u00a0wrote this all down.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"via Cult of Mac (Blogspot): I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;ve ever stumbled through an interview like that in my&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"apple_news_api_created_at":"2017-08-03T15:23:26Z","apple_news_api_id":"c07d7faf-4c74-4d0f-9125-75bee6d1f7d6","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2017-08-03T15:23:29Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AwH1_r0x0TQ-RJXW-5tH31g","apple_news_cover_media_provider":"image","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_cover_video_id":0,"apple_news_cover_video_url":"","apple_news_cover_embedwebvideo_url":"","apple_news_is_hidden":"","apple_news_is_paid":"","apple_news_is_preview":"","apple_news_is_sponsored":"","apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"middle","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":["https:\/\/news-api.apple.com\/sections\/a6dbab72-c794-3987-8514-c419907b32a3"],"apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_custom_appearance":"","csco_disable_excerpt_posts_layout":false,"csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_location_hash":"","csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-6956","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-linked","7":"cs-entry","8":"cs-video-wrap"},"apple_news_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pb3IC4-1Oc","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3336,"url":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2011\/12\/07\/sir-is-broken\/","url_meta":{"origin":6956,"position":0},"title":"\u2605 Siri is Broken","author":"Adam Chandler","date":"December 7, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Gizmodo: What those Apple ads fail to report\u2014at all\u2014is that Siri is\u00a0very much a half-baked product. 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