On Fri, 16 Jan 2009 07:30:08 -0600, Mike Raiford wrote:

> Invisible wrote:
> 
>> They won't speak to me by phone. Apparently the application goes to the
>> department who's trying to do the hire, and it's down to individual
>> departments to decide who they do or don't hire.
> 
> Well, that sucks. On the plus side consider this: Do you really want to
> work for a company that appears to treat people like a commodity?

Yeah, this is true.  Having worked for companies that treat people like 
that, I can attest that it really sucks to find that out afterwards.

Andy, the lesson to learn here is that interviews and job applications 
are a two-way-street.  You are interviewing them just as much as they are 
interviewing you.  If they act like total dicks during the interview, the 
chances are that that won't change once they hire you.

I probably told you about the interview I gave a storage device 
manufacturer.  I'd written a book on the technology they were interested 
in hiring me for and am recognised as an expert in the field, but they 
didn't give me a second interview because I wasn't certified in the OS.  
It didn't matter that I was one of (at the time) about 20 people in the 
world supporting the product online for the vendor, and that being one of 
those people is invitation-only.

If I had been hired, any time I disagreed with the people who got the 
certification, I was guaranteed to be wrong.  Not because I didn't know 
the technology (I knew it better than any of them did, and they knew that 
from talking to me about it - and admitted that during the interview), 
but I'd be wrong because I didn't have the damned piece of paper.

I'm so glad I didn't end up working for them.

Jim

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