Insight Global
Wow, this has to be the strangest recruiting company I have ever talked too. I got a phone call about two weeks ago from someone there and we chatted for a minute before he asked if I was interested in a help desk position, no real details but I said sure since I'm not doing much else until the MSP client moves ahead. I forwarded him a copy of my resume and that was it.
The next day I got another phone call asking if I could go by the office to meet a recruiter there. The guy I'm talking to is out of state and I have to meet someone to go forward, I said okay and setup a time a few days ahead. 5 minutes later I get another call from someone else asking if was interested in a NOC position and we could talk about it at the interview. I told her I was more interested in the NOC than help desk and would like to hear more.
The day of the interview I drive about 30 miles to the office, pay for parking and get up the office. There's no one at the front desk, just a phone with a note to pick it up. I do, talk to someone and a recruiter comes out a few minutes later. Very young guy, knows nothing about IT and the interview takes about 5 minutes. I leave, again with no details about either position.
A week after this I get a call about a desktop support position, I say whatever because I'm starting to wonder what is up with this company. I hear back a day or two later saying I was accepted and I needed to do a bunch of paperwork and a drug test. Again, no details about the job (just an overview) and when pressed really couldn't tell me anything. I did the paperwork and the test, the test had to be done at a urgent care with an hour wait, first time for that.
The materials they asked for for the background check was both remarkably easy to fake or so in depth it rivaled getting my security clearance. The system said I didn't have my degree so I sent a copy of my transcripts, I gave them my references but they only called them to try and push their services and to verify I have my own IT company they wanted to speak to ANY other person who could verify that. This whole process took about a week and the recruiter repeatedly had to call back and verify information or get more, at one point the background check was done and passed then two days later the degree popped up.
So finally everything is done and he says I can go in the next day, only problem is that he never told me where to be. He called around and finally verified the address so I'm good to go. Couple hours later he calls me and says that everything has cleared but the department who puts it all together has left for the day, I couldn't go in in the morning but as soon as the package was completed he would call me and I could head over. At this point I'm thinking WTF and it's 50 miles, not something I can just pop over to in 5 minutes but whatever.
The next day I get a phone call around noon, I would go in the next day. Fine, I get everything together and am set for the next day. I head out and get there a few minutes early. I call my recruiter because no one is at the building, he gives me the # of the person on site and while I'm calling I see that there is a lower lot hidden by hedges, I drive over there and go in. I meet the head of the team and he tells me we are setting up the systems for the whole building, not what I was told it was going to be in the least bit. It seems easy enough so I'm still game to knock this out, I meet some of the others and they all have the same story about not being told what we were really doing and background check horror stories.
It's been a few days now and the job seems to be a fairly good one, setting things up is easy since we're not touching networking or VOIP at all and we'll move over to a support role when the people show up next week (oh boy). The whole inventory and ordering for this project is messed up but that's on the them, not us. I'm glad I stuck through the messed up process, towards the end I started to think it was some giant elaborate scam. Two people have already quit though because it's not what they were expecting. I get to learn how to use the Citrix HDX system and some image package server system which makes me happy, I may also get to dabble in small networking tasks.
Pay also isn't bad, and it's weekly.
