You probably didn't take enough pop-psychology IQ test phone screens and write a long enough essay about how well you did in high-school math. If you had said you had proved the Collatz Conjecture when you were fourteen he probably would have listened.

At least that's the impression that I got from their interview process.

Harsh but not unfair.

Just to clarify, though: I wasn't interviewing for a job, I was interviewing the man for El Reg.

https://www.theregister.com/2024/11/11/mark_shuttleworth_ubu...