Interviewed at Samsung ( Noida India) around 2016, where exactly the same thing happened with me.
Was being interviewed by a panel of 4-5 people. The main guy, who I presume was the hiring manager stood up in the middle of the interview and left the room, seemingly unimpressed with my answers.
Thankfully I didn't get through and heard many horror stories regarding their culture in later years.
Instant feedback type problem solving is great for ADHD people, not to mention that unlike other professions, software engineering isn't licensed and in a lot of cases doesn't even require a degree and so a wide variety of people can work as one.
I think a lot of people who work in high stress coding environments try to overcome their human limitations (e.g requiring rest, sunlight, communication) via stimulants or some other, and chalk up the neuroses produced by the vicious cycle of stim-work-stim-work as a weakness inherit in themselves
Judging by the conversation on this story, everybody on HN is a smug non-coffee-drinker. I'd guess it's just self-selection (maybe cross-pollinating with the fact that software development tends to require either mental discipline, or hyperfocus...)
I feel that people who find HN good, do so for a reason.
They are the kind of people who are in majority in HN. They have similar views and when they comment here on HN their views are accepted and prompted more readily.
This makes it a kind of an echo chamber.
All deviants get banned or their comments are greyed out.
Dissenting is not allowed and dealt with severity and finality.
That’s fine though. It’s ok to have communities with shared interests and goals. Sometimes that means keeping out people who prefer something different. That’s ok too; they can start a forum for their community and impose whatever conditions they like. HN is just an Internet forum. It’s not a massive social media platform or a country where exclusionary rules can be damaging to large populations.
