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I interviewed at Rackspace a few years back on the ops engineering side. It was part of a bigger recruiting push they were doing across the metroplex area I li
by lmickh 10y ago
I interviewed at Rackspace a few years back on the ops engineering side. It was part of a bigger recruiting push they were doing across the metroplex area I live in.
It involved a similar schedule of interviews across multiple teams in one day. Only 11 people apparently passed the tech pre-screening to get to that point out of the whole area. Interview process went great. It included a number of different fields at varying depths, yet didn't feel over the top at all. It was a very fair and positive experience. There seemed to be real interest from several of the interview teams.
Then the offer came. They wanted me to relocate for a swing shift chat support position at half my current pay even after shift bonuses. I don't know how you go from discussing Openstack production implementations (back in the Essex/Folsom days when you couldn't find anyone that knew that stuff) to basic Linux chat support.
- pram 10y agoI had the same experience, and also a lowball offer about 4 years ago. I find these all day interviews to be very infantile and pointless. It's even more insulting imo when you're interviewing to work at what is basically a giant call center, which is what rackspace is at the end of the day.
- 20years 10y agoUgh! That is insulting. No wonder techs are so tired of the interview process.
- jimminy 10y agoI had this same experience about a year ago. After going through several screens, I was asked to take an entry-level ops position, in a completely different metro at a lower pay, while I was applying for a senior applications role. My primary reason for applying was the location and type of role, so I declined. But I've never felt so disrespected by a companies hiring practices like that.
- thonos 10y agoNot rackspace but I had something similar with Google. I interviewed with them for a software engineer position but failed. On the next day a recruiter contacted me for a google apps support position without coding involved based on something in their system.