hiring
Original: hiring on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Interviewer (a man in a suit at a desk): At this company, normal hiring procedures don't apply.
Panel 2:
Interviewer: We only want GENIUSES. So, we ask puzzles and judge how well you solve them.
Panel 3 (close-up of a second man, the applicant, smiling):
(no dialogue)
Panel 4 (interviewer gesturing):
Interviewer: QUICK! Estimate how many employees we have!
Panel 5 (the applicant, seen from behind):
Applicant: Given that other companies use empirically validated non-annoying hiring protocols, and that engineers have lots of options, I'd estimate your company has exactly one employee.
Interviewer: PLEASE DON'T LEAVE ME.
Applicant: What's a keyboard?
(The final wide panel shows the office with a strange terrarium-like display containing mushrooms, plants, and a fish.)
Votey:
A worried-looking man (the interviewer): I have six billion dollars in angel funding and I have no idea what to do with it!
Interviewer (a man in a suit at a desk): At this company, normal hiring procedures don't apply.
Panel 2:
Interviewer: We only want GENIUSES. So, we ask puzzles and judge how well you solve them.
Panel 3 (close-up of a second man, the applicant, smiling):
(no dialogue)
Panel 4 (interviewer gesturing):
Interviewer: QUICK! Estimate how many employees we have!
Panel 5 (the applicant, seen from behind):
Applicant: Given that other companies use empirically validated non-annoying hiring protocols, and that engineers have lots of options, I'd estimate your company has exactly one employee.
Interviewer: PLEASE DON'T LEAVE ME.
Applicant: What's a keyboard?
(The final wide panel shows the office with a strange terrarium-like display containing mushrooms, plants, and a fish.)
Votey:
A worried-looking man (the interviewer): I have six billion dollars in angel funding and I have no idea what to do with it!
Alt text
A five-panel SMBC comic. A man in a suit interviewing across a desk says, "At this company, normal hiring procedures don't apply. We only want GENIUSES. So, we ask puzzles and judge how well you solve them." The interviewee, smiling, is asked, "QUICK! Estimate how many employees we have!" The applicant (seen from behind) deadpans, "Given that other companies use empirically validated non-annoying hiring protocols, and that engineers have lots of options, I'd estimate your company has exactly one employee." The now-desperate interviewer pleads, "PLEASE DON'T LEAVE ME," while the applicant adds, "What's a keyboard?" amid an odd office terrarium of mushrooms, plants, and a fish. Votey: a frantic, sweating man clutches his face and says, "I have six billion dollars in angel funding and I have no idea what to do with it!"
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.