[outsidetheparty]

I should have spotted it but didn't: They took me out skiing one day between interviews (they were courting me pretty hard, and good snow was a selling point for the region) and I met the CEO for the first time on the slopes.

He wore a full motorcycle-style helmet with a mirrored face visor which he refused to open; it was like talking to a member of Daft Punk. It had fake hologram bullet-holes on it.

More importantly, he skied like an asshole: cutting people off, sudden stops or changes in direction without checking if anyone else was coming, cutting ahead in the lift line, stopping to readjust his gloves or whatever directly in the lift exit ramp, shouting at people who he felt were in his way -- just totally self-absorbed and borderline dangerous.

It turned out to match his management style 1000%.

[nameless912]

My last CEO (healthcare startup) told me during my interview with them "but you don't look autistic!" and that should have been the end of the conversation there. When people show you who they are, believe them and all that.

[sophyphreak]

More people should do this! One time I advised people to out themselves in interviews--there are literal empirical reasons to do this--and I cannot describe how chewed out I got. Normalize neurodivergence!

[paulddraper]

....what was the lead up to that statement?

"I'm autistic"

"Oh, you don't seem autistic"

[yieldcrv]

why aren't their positive traits that you see 99% of the time “who they really are”

just a question about the phrase, not this particular person

how does this give any predictive insight aside from you thinking they're hiding the rest of the time

[willcipriano]

> mirrored face visor which he refused to open

> he skied like an asshole: cutting people off, sudden stops or changes

It sounds like Mr. Bean was mistaken as a CEO and was just rolling with it.

[latchkey]

That's almost worth naming names, just to prevent anyone else from suffering a similar fate. Plus, I'm really curious who it was.

[outsidetheparty]

Ha! Sorry. This was decades ago, anyway. Right after the sort-of-botched IPO he drove off in his shiny new Ferrari never to be seen again (like, seriously, that exit is the last mention I can find of him online. He made out much better than the employees, I’ll tell you that much)

[yogurthewise]

Before you started talking about how he skied like an asshole. I was thinking, you where being interviewed by The Stig lmao

[natsucks]

hilarious.