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Originally Posted by Katsunami
Also, stupid people... I had a job interview earlier this week. Second one, same company.
In the first one, the development/software engineering team was overjoyed with finally finding someone who could do basically EVERYTHING they ever needed: design and write software for micro-controllers in C, for PLC's in Structured Text, and even create web-interfaces in PHP and HTML/CSS/JQuery. Talked about software engineering and architecture for over two hours. They even invited me for the second interview before I was out the door; didn't need to wait for a phone call or an e-mail.
Yesterday I had the second interview with a manager from HR... the most standard and bland interview you could ever imagine. Irrelevant questions about if I was married / had a GF, if she'd move if I moved for this job, if I liked the master I was doing (no, moron, I always study stuff I hate...), if I knew version control (entirely missing the fact there are four systems mentioned in the CV) and so on.
Today I got the message I won't be made an offer because "he wasn't feeling the vibe."
When do fools like them get this? Engineers don't blabber around making small talk or talking about their girlfriends or whatever you need to 'feel it the vibe'. They want to use the stuff they know to CREATE LOGICAL, WORKING SYSTEMS.
Idiot. And in a few weeks, he'll be screaming at the top of his lungs that he 'can't find good, qualified people,' just like all the other CEO's and HR dudes.
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I'm with you on this one. I recently had an interview with a technical Director which was going well, until HR joined us. They had this stupid psychometric test (you had to answer eight "questions" about which in a series of four words you were most like and most unlike. How you can fully assess someone's character from that I really don't know). Anyway. she started saying that the test showed I was someone who disliked change, and in stressful situations I became more and more reliant on rules and process. As a change agent, that is the antithesis of what I am - I embrace change and get very quickly bored with handle-turning and the status quo.
Needless to say I didn't get to second interview.