Ho presentato la mia candidatura online. La procedura ha richiesto un giorno. Ho sostenuto un colloquio presso Red Ventures (Austin, TX) nel mese di dic 2018
Colloquio
The first thing that was pretty terrible was the fact that although every single job interaction I had with these guys said "Red Ventures", the job was actually for CreditCards.com. CC.com was purchased by Red Ventures but from what I could tell no actual Red Ventures people were on site or controlling any part of the office. I looked up CC.com on Glassdoor and found a significantly worse review than RV has. I only found out about who I was actually interviewing with on my way to their office. Felt like a bait and switch, but I went through it anyway.
Once I took the interview itself, I had a series of four half hour interviews. None of the people that were originally on my schedule were either able or were prepared to do the interview. Three of them had no clue there was an interview and weren't ready, mostly being tossed in when the original person couldn't make it. One of them had no clue there was an interview but attached to the webcam from home (I could barely understand him). The guy that worked from home was the king of asking entirely inappropriate questions that no developer and especially no Platform Engineer would be asked. At no point were my actual coding skills assessed-- no code was actually displayed anywhere, he just wanted to know if I knew about overhead programming philosophies that he personally thought were important. I've had no problem learning about such things in past jobs but he seemed extremely excited to weed people out using questions that I've never heard of being applied to any dev job.
I felt in the end like the guy was some sort of creditcards.com loyalist who was just trying to be a pain for any Red Ventures job search and that he would have declined pretty much anyone who was coming through. Complete waste of my time to add to the bait and switch I experienced. Left feeling really annoyed by the main guy who was causing this and would definitely not recommend doing anything with CreditCards.com or Red Ventures until they can get in to Austin and significantly gut the people in power from the company.
Domande di colloquio [2]
Domanda 1
What type of programmer are you? (Note that this has nothing to do with which languages you know).
RV's recruiter reached out to me and scheduled a phone call interview on Tuesday. The recruiter didn't call me and when I followed up, she said my email was in her junk box. Then rescheduled to Friday and no surprise, there's no phone call again and there's no any response from the recruiter. So disappointed. If you don't want to speak with me, just let me know. If the recruiter of the company doesn't know how to respect others, I cannot imagine how bad the company is