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Interviewing candidates

dave330i

I'll be interviewing some virtualization engineer candidates next week. Should I be mean and introduce myself as someone with 4 VCAPs or not?

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MCITBound

Haha - Well, if you did - they would know that they can't BS their way through the interview!

ratbuddy

Telling them in advance would be nice.

--chris--

It would be nice...but I wouldn't

Let their true character shine!

networker050184

No sure if you are joking around, but if I went to interview somewhere and someone introduced them self and rattled of their certs first thing I'd probably not want to work with someone like that.

dave330i

@networker,

I'm kidding. One of the candidates I interviewed while back mentioned he searched for me on LinkedIn, then freaked out a bit when he saw my certs.

tstrip007

I say don't. They will recognize your level when you start throwing some advanced level questions at them. I interviewed for a v engineer job that was a bit out of my league at the time and my interviewer did not look like an IT person. For some reason I thought I might be meeting with mgt or HR before I met with the technical guys then all the sudden this guy flips the switch and I was shocked. When I left (after 15 min) he said, "go get your VCP", and shoot me an email after.

jmritenour

networker050184 wrote: »

No sure if you are joking around, but if I went to interview somewhere and someone introduced them self and rattled of their certs first thing I'd probably not want to work with someone like that.

Same here. Actually, I had that happen not too long ago. I got cold called by this company based on my LinkedIn profile, and after a couple of phone conversations, went in for a a face to face. Right out of the gate, this guy starts beating me over the head with how well known he and his team are in the open source world, and how large companies such as Amazon are begging them to partner with them, blah blah blah. He suggests I Google him, as well as his senior level guy, and "prepare to be humbled".

I pretty much glazed over at that point and tanked the interview. I thought about cutting things short and leaving - I'm not sure why I didn't, but part of me wishes I did. I guess it was more out of morbid curiosity to see how much worse it would get.