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Comment by nly

2 days ago

What was the one time when you need something wait free? I'm assuming interacting with hardware?

Hard real-time industrial automation. Worst job ever, by the way.

  • I don't think any of my immediate opportunities are "real-time industrial automation" shaped, but, can't hurt to ask: Do you think it was the work that inherently was the worst ever, or was there some other enviromental factor (e.g. terrible wages, for some reason your office was up six flights of stairs with no elevator, colleague insisted on playing music from your least favourite genre at maximum volume) ?