In no particular order:

• National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation
• Elf
• Scrooged
• Miracle on 34th Street (1947)
• Star Wars Holiday Special (I know. Please don’t judge too harshly)
• Violent Night
• A Christmas Horror Story
• A Christmas Story
• At least one of the Rankin/Bass stop motion christmas movies
• How the Grinch Stole Christmas (1966)

Plus others, but those are the ones that tend to get played every year.

My SO’s company asks for presentations if a candidate for certain high-level positions make it to final rounds of interviewing. It’s pitched as being a “high level overview to start a conversation, not a TED talk”. They also pay the candidates for the time to put this presentation together. I think it’s something like $200, but I am not sure.

Being asked to put together a presentation is not necessarily bad, but being asked to put in your personal time without compensation is a red flag. It speaks a lot to their culture and expectations of personal sacrifice the company likely asks of their employees.

I’ve actually been in this situation when I was working as a sys admin at a webhosting company. First I played a lot of games. Once that started to get boring I taught myself how to code which set me up to transition from sys admin to development work.

Just guessing here, but I would think it’s for for clarity and brevity. West and South are shorter to say and distinct enough to avoid being easily misheard causing somebody to go in the opposite direction than intended.