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"Yeah, he's a few PDF's shy of a full stack, I tell ya!" side story: Yeah, I went through 3 stages of hiring with $company. Interviews went great, and then I

"Yeah, he's a few PDF's shy of a full stack, I tell ya!" side story: Yeah, I went through 3 stages of hiring with $company. Interviews went great, and then I hear back that I didn't show up to the 3rd (much to my surprise). When the HR person checked back in, they said it was an error and instead they were no longer interested in me because I lacked Kubernetes experience specifically. And my resume includes Openstack and Apache Mesos. Not Kuber. But they dragged me around. Still pisses me off that they couldn't read my resume. Then again, their interview process was... shall we say, "interesting".

hodl 9y ago
Thats why one must lie in their cv
- crankylinuxuser 9y ago
  Perhaps. But I think it's better, that if they're willing to play those kinds of games that I wouldn't want to work for them anyways. All tech companies run their own NIH stack in one way or another. If they aren't willing to admit that to themselves, there's not much I can do. It costs time to train to get new people up to speed... and given what kind of arduous journey learning OpenStack is, I figured they would have understood and went "Well you dont know K8N, but you're trainable in this stack.."
deckard1 9y ago
> Yeah, I went through 3 stages of hiring with $company. My BS radar goes off when I get asked for a 2nd interview, or any 4 hour group interview. Thanks, but no thanks. They did you a favor. These interviewers are crazy, and have zero proof their convoluted process produces better hires than a single 30 minute coffee interview. They just don't want to admit they don't know what they are doing. As if the heavens will open up and god himself will shout down "He's the one!", if they just have enough rounds to get there.
- snowwindwaves 9y ago
  My girlfriend went through ten interviews with Stryker and then didn't get the job. Words fail me.
emmelaich 9y ago
I've also been interviewee recently in this space. I'm lucky in that in each one the interviewer showed a healthy scepticism or lower enthusiasm for K8s and similar products. Maybe I'm doing my self a dis-service by not shooting for the moon. But I don't think so. I'd rather do real work than spend days reading upgrade notes. On-premises K8s time will come but for most that time is not now.

hodl 9y ago

Thats why one must lie in their cv

crankylinuxuser 9y ago
Perhaps. But I think it's better, that if they're willing to play those kinds of games that I wouldn't want to work for them anyways. All tech companies run their own NIH stack in one way or another. If they aren't willing to admit that to themselves, there's not much I can do. It costs time to train to get new people up to speed... and given what kind of arduous journey learning OpenStack is, I figured they would have understood and went "Well you dont know K8N, but you're trainable in this stack.."

deckard1 9y ago

> Yeah, I went through 3 stages of hiring with $company. My BS radar goes off when I get asked for a 2nd interview, or any 4 hour group interview. Thanks, but no thanks. They did you a favor. These interviewers are crazy, and have zero proof their convoluted process produces better hires than a single 30 minute coffee interview. They just don't want to admit they don't know what they are doing. As if the heavens will open up and god himself will shout down "He's the one!", if they just have enough rounds to get there.

snowwindwaves 9y ago
My girlfriend went through ten interviews with Stryker and then didn't get the job. Words fail me.

emmelaich 9y ago

I've also been interviewee recently in this space. I'm lucky in that in each one the interviewer showed a healthy scepticism or lower enthusiasm for K8s and similar products. Maybe I'm doing my self a dis-service by not shooting for the moon. But I don't think so. I'd rather do real work than spend days reading upgrade notes. On-premises K8s time will come but for most that time is not now.