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--- my resume ---
Worked on kernel driver A and B. Got them mainlined.
--- interview ---
Interviewer: You developed driver A. Our developer who looked into it said it was tainted crap.
Interviewed: Has your developer gotten his own code into upstream kernel?
--- branch 1 ---
Interviewer: No.
Interviewed: I would be happy to assist your developers in raising their code quality up to the crap level.
Interviewer: Err.
--- branch 2 ---
Interviewer: Yes. He's Andrew Morton.
Interviewed: Err. Did he think it was OK?
Interviewed: Sure. Welcome to Google.
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Moral of the story: If your future employer has clueless people you'll be involved with shit anyway.
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