The secret ia that 90% of them are garbage. When someone boasts how they are getting courted left and right I have a chuckle and put them in my "very impressionable" bin.
Well it's not like I asked them and they refused to ask me any questions. 3/5 people asked me "what happens when you boot a VM in openstack", which was a kind-of-shitty question because I can know the answer from just looking at a picture in the docs. More than that, I went in expecting a grilling interview (because Walmart Labs) and it was a huge anti-climax. I wasn't hugely impressed by the people that interviewed me too, except for one guy who has now left.
As to discerning a reason, no clue. At least 2 of them were competent coders, so no idea why they never asked me anything.
The second lecture uses an interesting code snippet. An example written in java taken from a book written in 1986 used to explain a C vulnerability. Something seems out of place.
Haven't seen that lecture yet, but something sure does seem out of place : java first appeared in 1995. If there's a book from 1986 showing java code, those pesky time lords have been at it again.
Anyway, I can see some logic behind using an ancient example of a vulnerability : these things were problems back in '86, and yet now, 2016, we still haven't figured out how to prevent them. I could also see the logic behind using another language : many security flaws are language independent. "I'm using <insert language here>, so I don't need to worry about security!" - yes, you do.
I'm interested in this as well. I'm not wholly familiar with the shipping process, but does the business rely on taking advantage of any shipping cost discrepancies?
