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The unspoken truth about managing geeks

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SKesselman:

"There's no reason for it. It's just our policy." - Anon HR Manager-40hz (September 13, 2009, 11:16 PM)
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Oh, the joy that comes from working for intelligent, insightful people like this...where do I sign up???  :)

mahesh2k:
In this part of the world, switching careers is tough. If you lack experience in IT industry, there is no way you can get it. Also if you assume yourself fresher at the time of switching, then criteria like age/prev work is also taken into consideration. HR people try to screw you if you fall in this category. They even ask personal question which got nothing to do with your performance/work/prev-experience/academics etc. And most weird thing i've seen so far is Arts/Commerce graduates who become HR/Recruiter judge Graduate Engineer/Phd people in interview. This is not good IMO.

Paul Keith:
@mahesh2k

Yup...

Order up! - The unspoken truth about managing managers who manage geeks.

fenixproductions:
I feel like I could write a book about interviews :(

Few more things are worse than already described:

1. Dictionaries

If there is no IT specialist HR expects you to know dictionary terms for all his/her questions. "What is serialisation"? The hell I know. I've used it many times, I can tell you examples right away but I have no idea how to tell you that in right way. Will Wikipedia be OK or should I memorize other resources too?

2. English language

I was once on the interview where the spoke person was very bad in English. Honestly, I can get the context of your speech if it's even in Cockney but I had real troubles to understand what I was asked about. And that was in the middle of London!

3. Time

Do not give a feeling that I am not needed at all and you are in hurry. If you don't have a time to listen to my answer, don't make an appointment instead of cutting my responses after 3rd sentence.



As others stated: an IT guy is "must have" for an IT role interview. I am not going there to meet Drinking bird or to hear "I don't know. I am here just for interview"*.

*) Happened during #2 meeting.

Stoic Joker:
LOL, this thread is getting difficult to follow, what with having only half a brain and all...

Very interesting to read your replies guys, thanks. Stoic Joker, you weed out ex McDonald's employees? Why is that? Here in .au it's considered to be a positive thing.

Ehtyar.
-Ehtyar (September 13, 2009, 03:12 PM)
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*Shrug* Actually I was just trying to throw in a little stereo-type "salt" to liven it up a bit...and since the DMV always takes such a beating I thought it best to pick on someone else.

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