Meeting with 2 recruiters today....

Turgon

knwminus wrote: »

I interviewed for the position above today. Honestly the interview was the strangest one I have ever had in my life. The entire time the guy seem distracted. He apparently hadn't read my resume and constantly wanted to know my answers to questions (very non technical, opinion based questions) only to say that my answers were "wrong". I explained to him my strong suits and he said "Oh I don't care about that (in reference to cisco)" and he asked "what can I do?". I paused for a moment to gather my thoughts and then he said "Oh that was to slow, you gotta keep up". He also kept taking phone calls and clicking his pen like he really didn't want to do it the interview (these are the people that called me wanting to know if I could interview ). He then got serious and told me how he is the IT department. When I asked him what they needed his response was " Everything". Recovery solutions, update services, updates to sql server and exchange (currently on 2000 and 2003 respectively) updates to the rsa server, laptop and desktop roll outs, helpdesk related issues (the guys office was literally covered with computer cases and parts), security, ip address reprovisioning, crystal reports, vlans..... (he kept going) I was just sitting there like WTF is going on, is this guy serious. I told him I could do it but I had to be honest, I am a quick study but I have never designed a recovery plan for a 200 machine network. I told him I would be more than willing to learn. He asked me what I was looking to make and when I told him he says, "Wow. That's pretty high". I think it is pretty fair seeing how it is what I have been making. He then tells me that he will need to bring me back in for a tech test and for me to email my references to him.


On the one hand, it would be really cool to get to actually design solutions implement technologies, and support them. I would also get to wear many hats which could help round my experience out. On the other hand, this guy seemed nuts, and he also seemed very stressed and over worked. The company seems to be doing well, so I have to wonder, why is it just the one guy doing their IT. Did he fire them? Did they quit? What happened?

At any rate that was strange.....

Dont work with him. Nut job. Nutty company. Run away, far far away.