Paul,

That sounds like a nightmare of a place to work. And I agree, that place has serious issues that runs deeper than just the hiring process.

Thanks for the comment!

Tom

I worked for a place that tried very hard to recruit me and I found out that they hadn’t been able to replace me for six months after I left.

The build process was unreliable and took half an hour. If anything went wrong because of my actions or because of some bad decisions somebody made seven years ago, I might have to do it all over again. They gave me a piece of crap laptop which only had two cores. They gave me an off brand IP phone which wouldn’t ring when my boss called. I could never keep a development server in the data center, and logging into the data center was like the beginning sequence of “Get Smart”. It took 30 seconds of waiting to create a ticket in the ticket system and another 30 seconds of waiting to edit a wiki page.

If I brought any of the issues up I was told I was not being a team player or that we were in crisis mode and didn’t have time to do anything the right way. I was always getting bitched out for being slow and late despite the fact that the project was two years late when I started.

This kind of experience has made we wonder if I’d rather have my house foreclosed on than work a W-2 job.

Chandan,

It sounds like they didn’t know what they wanted, or needed. Sometimes an internal group just decides they need a specific resource, but they have no idea what to do with the resource when it arrives.

Wise words, but fools don’t see it that way unfortunately. They keep saying that they’re better off without that person and that the company is great and it’s great to have new blood.

Darn, I was going to say that!! It’s so true though I’ve seen job descriptions where they ask for a SQL MCM and are willing to pay $100k (DC Area)! Are you kidding??