all y'all still trash

had a recruitment agent message me on linked a couple days ago. turns out that the hedge fund i wrote about in my last post, still has not found anyone in London that is competent or knows anything about computers and IT. Everyone in London is still trash. 

This firm know lots about computers because they are running Hyper-V in 2024, and are only this year starting the process of migrating to Vsphere. the interviewer even mentioned they were having trouble with the migration of VMs. Clearly this clown has not heard of Vmware converter, which makes it so easy and seamless whenever i have used it to migrate VMs or convert physical servers to VM. Maybe he cant get it working or does not of its existence and is trash. 

I have heard it with my own ears where a senior techie at a firm I used to work at and who has attained a certain status and position, deliberately sabotaged interviews with candidates. He would walk back to his desk gleefully telling the rest of the table that he had 'barbecued' another candidate, which was a bit rich coming from someone who i heard explain how he thought single instance storage was implemented in MS Exchange but it was completely wrong. clearly he had never read about how it worked and was just making shit up. 
A bit rich coming from someone whose misconfiguration of a windows server caused an outage of the Exchange messaging system because its time went out of sync as time settings were not configured correctly and the whilst some VM guest and were getting time settings from Vcenter other physical servers were getting it from their own BIOS clocks. He would ask candidates obscure random shit they he would google, but clearly had no idea what function or usefulness NTP servers served amongst servers in a network. 

I dont know but i suspect something similar is happening at this place as well.  

London is a desert

so about 5 weeks ago i interviewed for a hedge fund who then did not call me back in and quite rightly so given that they run Hyper-V in 2024 and some obscure on prem storage system that i heard of once about 15 years ago which nobody runs. y'all trash. 

Also despite the job description claiming they wanted someone with AWS or Azure knowledge and other related tech like Terraform and Kubernetes, they guy interviewing me asked zero questions about them. i now suspect they only included those cloud requirements because without them the job description would look like it was from 2008. 

anyways, a few days ago i get a message from a recruiter saying he is hiring for a job at a hedge fund, and sends me the exact same job description. evidently every single candidate that was interviewed in the preceding 5 weeks, including myself, was trash and London is a desert of talent. 

fucking timewasters at these firms using the recruitment process to gauge the level of talent and then boosting their own egos by telling themselves that there is no one that reaches their exceptional standards and skill levels. i recall he asked me a question. 

It says on your CV you have used Vsphere v6.5 and v8. How come you you not used v7?. 

Err...because none of the firms i worked at happened to use v7. At my last job we went from 6.5 to 8 and in the role before that we were at v6.5. I dont v7 is fundamentally that different from v6.5 or v8 from an operation level. 

hhhmmmmm!!!!!. 

you run Hyper-V in 2024 for fuck sake and you are asking me why i have not supported VSphere7!!!. i have used and have taken the certification for v3, v3.5, v4, v5, v6, and have used v 6.5 and v8 while you were and are still running Hyper V. what versions of vmware and which certifications in it have you got you mate?. according to your linkedin certifications list you have listed none!!! along with no certification or experience in terraform or linux or kubernetes or AWS or Azure or docker or..... 

keep running your on-prem windows shit and keep telling yourself that anyone who has not used Vsphere7 is trash and not up to your exceptional technical standards. keep wasting peoples time and keep protecting your salary and position by making sure you hire someone that might not one day start talking about things you have no fucking clue about. 

got back from holiday yesterday. forgot to collect one of the suitcases from the carousel in arrivals and then exited. had to stay behind in the airport from an hour and managed to get let back in to baggage hall to collect it. absolutely knackered.