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The interviewer started off by saying that some people get the right answer in a few seconds, but others never get it, and he hoped I would get it quickly. The question: "Is it faster for there to be wind or no wind for an aircraft's roundtrip flight?" My answer was that it was complicated, and he said it wasn't complicated. complications I pointed out were the type of aircraft, distance of flight, wind speed, and wind angle as a short list. He answered that we were talking about planes, but none of the other variables mattered, and pushed me to answer the question definitively. I mentioned that we could use Palantir's software to track flights in real-time and to cross-ref vs the wind speed to extrapolate what flight times would be for constant wind-speed journeys round-trip. This did not satisfy him and he said I needed a definitive answer. We talked a bit about relativity, he didn't seem to understand what the Earth's rotation meant, and that it generates massive winds, especially around the equator, and so kept pushing. I realize this is common in the tech industry, but the guy was saying some really stupid stuff and was very convincing that he believed it. So convincing in fact that I honestly think he believed some of the things. The conclusion of the question: He said that wind is always worse, because if you imagine riding 20 km on a bicycle with 10 km/hour wind, and you can peddle 20 km/hour. Without wind it would take 2 hours, but with wind, one direction you would be moving 10km/hour, the other direction you'd go 30km/hour so in total your time would always be over 2 hours. Therefore, wind was always worse. End of Story. My response was, very politely, that the bicyclist could crouch while going into the wind and straighten up when going with the wind to minimize and maximize drag, respectively. And I also mentioned that wind rarely scales in such a simple way that the wind adds or subtracts the exact windspeed to your speed. If this was the case boats could never travel towards the wind, and would move much slower than they actually do when traveling with the wind (at an angle). This did not please my Palantir overlord and he quickly asked about 100km/hour wind when you're biking, and that it would be impossible to ride in this. True, but planes are designed specifically to function with wind and minimize drag, so that they can fly. Anyways, it was very draining for not having anything to eat for the 8 previous hours, and it seemed like the guy felt very smart and confident, but didn't understand anything about real world engineering, where you can't make preposterous assumptions.
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