>Find a very lucrative position >During interview I get asked alot about OSI model, static & dynamic routing, hubs switches routibg etc... >This is my passion I want to work with >I answer all questions, make a few oopsies, forgetting to mention RIPv2, forgot some details about OSPF etc.. >Some bait about troubleshooting, manage to sway away and explain that if the customer cant reach DNS its probably because of other errors on the network
Interviewers seem very happy and the one who escorted me to the entry told me it went very good and looked visibly happy about the interview.
>go home and wait a few hours >recruitment firm calls me >"user... you were very good at the interview but you lack experience.."
I'm so fucking mad right now. I guess I need to take that CCNA asap. How much does it cost & where can I apply?
To be fair I already have a decent paying job with great colleagues but this was the bullseye job for me that I just missed..
meanwhile I'm over here getting offers for lead roles because I have a bigger sales/marketing background than I do with software...This shit is fucking wacky
Joseph Gomez
Legit sorry about that, user. The job market is fucking brutal on the job-seeker side. The worst is that this garbage never really ends: go through a slow mental decay while jobless, get slightly high on the new job honeymoon phase, realize your job is shit and spend your days screaming internally, get fired, back to the mental decay.
I am truly considering offing myself not to deal with this any longer. It's so tiring.
Jaxson Jackson
Wew lad, sounds like what happened to me >Get an interview for a developer job via referral >First interview with Human resources goes fine >Second interview is with Project leader and Scrum master >Scrum master is dressed like a bum, whatever, both of them ask me very few things, ask them about what frameworks and tools they use and also about their work methods >Later that day i get call from friend, he overhead Scrum master saying I didn't seem very independent or proactive, this makes the project leader doubt. >Anxious as fuck, leader calls friend to talk about me a few days later. Like a week later I finally get an E-mail saying I got rejected >A month passes and nobody is hired for the position, friend is assigned to the project, alone. >Last week, girl gets hired for the position I wanted. Supposedly studied engineering for two years and "saw lots of math but very little programming" >Clear as day she lied. >She is a total disaster, doesn't even know how to code so has spent a week "learning" >She is still a disaster, doesn't even know how to code in Javascript. My friend has to spend HIS TIME teaching her since everyone else ignores her, drives him mad since he can't read her and simply nods when asked if she understands. >Friend's task is falling apart and has LESS time to fix it because he has to handhold this woman I laughed my ass off, my friend was cursing the scrum master left and right for turning me down but taking in a literal potato. I can see him quitting if this shit continues or someone speaks up about this shit and they fire the potato. Also the girl is an immigrant which arrived to the country not even a year ago, blows my mind she could get a job this fast when supposedly many immigrants can't due to lack of paperwork
Similar thing happened to me when I applied for a junior sysadmin job, the ad clearly said no experience needed but will to learn etc, I fulfilled the requirements in the ad and then at the interview got shit for not having certs or experience. feels bad
Levi Turner
Contact the company directly, don't trust the recruitment firm.
Carson Mitchell
There was probably something that they simply didn't like about you and citing your lack of experience was an easy way out for them. I absolutely aced all the technical questions in my first interview with one company and the interviewers (i.e. the team I would have actually been working with) said I would fit in well. Then when I got invited for a second interview with the manager, they rejected me because "I lacked motivation". Maybe you just didn't show enough enthusiasm or you didn't present yourself as someone who would fit into the company well.
Either way, just keep trying. Eventually you will find a job providing you do have the knowledge. Smaller companies tend to be a lot more open to giving people with less experience more opportunities.
Camden Baker
it was probably a scam
Jaxson Bailey
Since when do they call you when you don't qualify for a job?
Brandon Thompson
I swear I've read half of this story before the worst part is got knowing why you got turned down but yeah a reason as dumb as this would make me mad
Jose Sanders
I actually posted about it a month ago because I was upset/depressed about it for like two weeks. My friend is mad pissed since he put a lot of effort into getting me hired, since he knew what I could do and how I behave, yet after not having hired anyone for a month they bring someone in who is a detriment to the team.
John Barnes
There would have been some reason why they didn't hire you (even if it was just a little thing). After all it looks like they have a role they need to fill and they ended up hiring someone to help do it. By the sound of things your technical skills are on point, so maybe you just smell bad. Or maybe your friend stabbed you in the back and told them not to hire you (although that's very unlikely given how it has come back to bite your friend on the arse anyway).
Owen Richardson
Good companies will typically call you if you did or didn't get the job or a second interview. Emphasis on 'good'.
Matthew Ortiz
yeah good companies will call back and usually save your record for the future
t. had a friend in hr
Angel Walker
Not that guy but you would be surprised. Really depends on the company. For example, right now I'm working my first IT job and I've heard stories of this kind of shit around here. Our CTO years ago hired a girl in a VOIP engineering role that she had no business being in, and was ultimately fired when she said she had no idea what she was doing. CTO pretty much admitted he hired with his dick. My manager also almost hired a girl before me because she was smoking hot, but thankfully he didn't do it. Hell we still have girls around here who are dumb as fucking bricks or just not qualified for their positions that are either nepotism hires or MUH DICK hires. Never underestimate the pigheadedness of management.
Kayden Cruz
I agree that people in management roles are often incompetent, usually they get the job because they can bullshit well enough to cover up their lack of knowledge. But no company would reject a perfect candidate, there would be some reason why that user was rejected (which may not have even been his fault). Maybe they just weren't interested in hiring anyone and just felt obligated to give him an interview because his friend put in a word for him. Then they decided to hire this girl because she was attractive, not because they needed her.
Although I've generally found that smaller companies are much better when it comes to management since there's usually only one or two people between you and the CEO, so you don't get arrogant cunts in useless middle-management positions.
Samuel Martin
OP here. Yea I mean what they probably deemed missing was that I didnt have good enough experience with Cisco. Mind you that the company is dealing with over half a million fiber customers and now that I think of it I do probably need alot more experience. I am going to attend the CCNA exam in the future and I am starting to tinker with the Packet Tracer now which I must give credit for being much more complicated and in-depth than I previously anticipated.
I spoke with the recruitment firm again and they seem very open about me coming back for a new interview in the future.
I think this will work out just fine :)
Nathaniel Richardson
Highly doubt my friend stabbed me in the back, he really wanted me to work there, as for personal hygiene I was spotless that day. I'm convinced It was the fact I wasn't independent enough or some BS. >CTO pretty much admitted he hired with his dick I (and most friends I have been talking to) think this was the case, heard that a pair of girls got into another team after leaving the interviewer impressed, while their technical skills were debatable. >Maybe they just weren't interested in hiring anyone and just felt obligated to give him an interview because his friend put in a word for him. I think this may be it actually, again, they went over a month without hiring anyone for that team and it appears they had no other referrals.
Ethan Baker
I'm sure you'll make it eventually if you keep trying different places and spend your free time improving yourself. Employers tend to look at gaps in your CV/resume, if you can demonstrate that you've spent that time learning stuff rather than doing nothing, it will show that you're motivated and capable of learning which can only help your cause.
Tyler Collins
guys I just royally fucked up an interview they probably think I'm a total retard now it was during the white board questions or couldn't figure out simple decimal division, literally to me 5 minutes, had a total brain freeze also >how do you stay up to say on tech? >I um browse a few image boards dedicated to technology I literally only browse Jow Forums and I was trying really hard to avoid name drop it
Aiden Scott
I hate certs but through family who works in HR I've come to understand that hiring is a lose lose situation. If you're bad, the hiring fails. If you're good you might require more than market rate and the chances are you'll move out of the role quickly. Paper credentials are a stabilizing factor that lets them more accurately predict the outcome so the larger the org the more likely certs/degrees are required unless you know somebody credible on the inside which is the other way to predict the outcome.
