So we had an interesting week so far with a new employee. I should start with his phone interview 3 weeks ago, the candidate was from India and claimed to be working in another state. He did very well on his interview answered questions quickly and did not seem to be looking them up and spoke fluent English.
Now it is not my call to make the hire , so the powers that be decided he was the man for the job and hired him without doing an on-site. 3 weeks later a guy shows up who sounds different and does not speak English as well...we thought this odd. So around his second day I take him into our lab and was describing a upcoming project he would be helping with. I told him to go ahead and console into a switch, he pulls up putty ( I attached his console cable ) and looks at me and says " do I use ssh or serial" ...red flag numero uno. I could go into all the hilarity that followed but basically this dude could not even spell cisco or network.
So its obvious they had someone else do the interview and then sent this guy in. Yes its my company's fault for not doing the onsite but the nerve these people have pulling this kind of thing amazes me. I mean did he think he would not have to do any work !? well anyways they let him go today...a waste of everyone's time now we have to interview,hire and board someone else
