This is a company that will shamelessly waste your time and just bombard you with technical questions. Prepare for a long game of IT Jeopardy if you plan on interviewing here. Interviewers here have no social skills and rely on IQ tests and technical questions to vet candidates. What this results in are un-fit, poor social skill types that will be condescending towards you as "know-it-alls" that can't do any sort of critical thinking other than 'analyzing' your test scores. The same toxic attitude that plagues many IT professionals these days.
Seriously many of these 'test' questions can be easily looked up on Google. Not everyone has a photographic memory. I've worked with these technologies daily but I don't have the memory of a dictionary and for this role, that's all that matters.
Right off the bat the recruiter working for Flexential would ask typical HR pre-screen questions. Some typical IT computer questions to start as well by a recruiter just reading off a script.
You will then be sent an "IQ" and "personality" test. Yep one of those types of companies. You're not a person, just a number. After passing this you will be brought in for yet another test at a computer. Again, facts that can be easily google'd.
If you pass this, you will be invited to a panel interview where they will bombard you with more IT test related questions. Only had a 10 minute chat about the company itself and it's culture, etc.
During the interview they would joke amongst themselves and not respect your time or effort. After going through all of this and putting up with their un-professionalism, I was told they were 'on the fence' with me and I was told that they would "probably hire me" after an hour long chat on the following Monday. Was told by a main manager that I'll probably get the offer and the same from their HR rep, I just "have to show my enthusiasm for how much I want it".
I go in Monday and meet the 'manager' that I would be directly working for. I'm asked how much I want the role, and at the time I was doing everything in my power to land this job. Right off the bat I could tell my would-be 'manager' did not have faith in me. He asked "how many hosts are in a /24 CIDR block" of an IP address, I answered 254, which is correct. I get a "technically, that the Cisco answer" and that I'm actually wrong, because you have to consider the "default gateway". So this manager is apparently more knowledgeable than Cisco education, and assumed I don't know what a default gateway is. He then asks questions about the details of my Europe long term travel I mentioned on my resume, with an attitude of "why is this on my resume?" as if there's something wrong with it. He then asks where else I'm interviewing at, which is none of their business. Absolutely unprofessional. I should have just walked out right then and there.
After this meeting, they tell me to expect an answer the next day, but 4 days later, I get a response from HR that they won't give me an offer. This is a company that won't stay true to their word and just keep you waiting and waste your time. I am absolutely disappointed in Flexential for the disrespect they showed me during this entire interview process. This is a place I would never want to work under toxic managers that don't respect you as human beings.
