so last week i get another call from a recruitment agency and it turns out that the hedge fund i interviewed with a couple of months ago, still has not found anyone that meets their exceptionally high technical standards.....in a firm that for 15 years thought that Hyper-V was better than Vmware, and nobody met the exacting criteria of their infrastructure platform manager who has a grand total of zero professional certifications in a 20 year career. No Cisco certs, no Microsoft certs, no VMware certs, no AWS certs, no Hashicorp certs, no.....
i told the agent that i had already gone to see them weeks and weeks ago and they did not call me back and surprisingly he asked me how i found the interview process. I have in the past slated recruitment agents and sometimes unfairly because its probably not their fault a lot of the time when it comes to no communication or not having the right information, and as a contractor i rely on agents and just like in every profession some of them are fucking useless but many of them are very good and doing their best.
anyway i recalled my interview experience to him. i noted that the job spec contains cloud and related tech like ansible and terraform, but that the interviewer did not ask me a single question or enquire at all about how or where i had used them or anything about AWS or Azure. I told him the interviewer questioned why i had not used a single version of Vmware Vsphere 7, despite me using every single version except that one, in the last 15 years, and being certified in 4 previous versions upto VSphere 6.5. Even the recruitment agent said it was a strange thing to pick up on a single version of VSphere which is not even the latest version, and question why someone had not used it. I also told him that the interviewer seemed annoyed about my enthusiasm for Cloud tech, given he concluded the interview by asking me if i preferred it over on-premises infrastructure.
I ended the call with the agent by wishing him luck in filling the role.
...........and then today i see the hedge fund has just reposted the role on a recruitment board because they still have not filled it. surely they must have seen hundreds of CVs by now, given that is being recruited for by at least 3 recruitment agencies over the last 10 weeks. They must have interviewed at least a dozen candidates and it seems everyone in London has been shit so far, and the whole process was startlingly reminiscent of this previous shit show. that was another hedge fund looking for an infrastructure engineer that only was interested in on-prem old technology (despite their job spec) and being in a firm filled with stale techies that have been there for a decade and are protecting their salaries and bonuses and who have not learned anything new in a decade.
anyways, i bought a CD a few weeks ago for the first time in at least a decade, and ironically it was an EP that was released a decade ago. this is fantastic.
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