On: I completely ignored the front end development sce...

[codetrotter]

> I once got bounced from a job interview for not knowing about a quirk of the newest XCode (less than a week old)

Sounds like they did you a favor. Who’d want to work for people like that?

[robocat → codetrotter]

> Who’d want to work for people like that

Recruiters, HR and interviewers often are nothing like the culture of the people you will end up working with.

Treat everything as a potential signal, but take care not to mistake noise for signal.

Also recruitment is often about reducing false positives (avoiding bad hires), at the cost of a high number of false negatives (failing to employ suitable candidates). Try not to take it personally when they give you a no for an obviously bad reason?!

[MrDresden → robocat]

This isn't universal, but the best places have peers do some or most of the interviewing.

So only interacting with HR/management would be a red flag for me.

[oceanghost → codetrotter]

I did.

The company I worked for was infinitely worse (literal Sociopathic management). The pay was better, it was closer to home, and the work was more stable. If I had to guess-- I'd say the existing iOS guy wanted a friend to be hired so he tanked me.