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55 year old software engineer , with extensive RF/analog background with dual EE/CE degrees. I can’t begin to count the number of interviews gleaned from Linke

by kmbfjr 5y ago

55 year old software engineer , with extensive RF/analog background with dual EE/CE degrees. I can’t begin to count the number of interviews gleaned from LinkedIn where the first 45 minutes of the interview was a late 20’s early 30’s person telling me all about their wonderful work and how great they are. Not a word about the job, nothing about the company, all about them and the places they’ve worked, what they have done. Just who the hell is being interviewed? When this happens, it is all I can do not to walk out of the interview or kill the call/Zoom session. The moment some places figure out you’re over 45, it is over. Except for very forward looking start-ups who want to grow very quickly. That is where I have been working for the past 10 years..best time of my life. But I also know, this is my last employer.

oceanghost 5y ago
This. I had an interview for a "digital interactive agency" where a 24-year-old lectured me this and that and how great she was. She was flabbergasted to find out I had more people working under me than were in her entire company. At the end of all this she says--"Do you think you are ready to step up to X quality?" I had just finished my yearly reading of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (ZAMM), and I was pretty annoyed with her, so I asked, "How do you define quality?" ZAMM is about a philosophy called the metaphysics of quality-- I knew that no matter what she said, I would have an advanced argument from ZAMM to belittle her with (the interview was just a formality at this point). She replied, "Hmmm, I'll have to think about that." And I never heard from this individual or agency again. I would like to think that day she learned not to say stupid things. Not to insult people over when you really don't even know what you're saying. But I doubt it.
- oceanghost 5y ago
  I realize replying to yourself demonstrates poor taste... But I'd like to add that at the time of the interview I had software I had personally designed at companies like DirecTV, Samsung, LG, Apple, Microsoft, Intel, Google and Applied Materials. I literally had products at Crestron, Denon and Monster, and one product that could be purchased nationally at Best Buy.

by kmbfjr 5y ago

oceanghost 5y ago

This. I had an interview for a "digital interactive agency" where a 24-year-old lectured me this and that and how great she was. She was flabbergasted to find out I had more people working under me than were in her entire company. At the end of all this she says--"Do you think you are ready to step up to X quality?" I had just finished my yearly reading of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (ZAMM), and I was pretty annoyed with her, so I asked, "How do you define quality?" ZAMM is about a philosophy called the metaphysics of quality-- I knew that no matter what she said, I would have an advanced argument from ZAMM to belittle her with (the interview was just a formality at this point). She replied, "Hmmm, I'll have to think about that." And I never heard from this individual or agency again. I would like to think that day she learned not to say stupid things. Not to insult people over when you really don't even know what you're saying. But I doubt it.

oceanghost 5y ago
I realize replying to yourself demonstrates poor taste... But I'd like to add that at the time of the interview I had software I had personally designed at companies like DirecTV, Samsung, LG, Apple, Microsoft, Intel, Google and Applied Materials. I literally had products at Crestron, Denon and Monster, and one product that could be purchased nationally at Best Buy.