Idiots authority

Had a telephone interview today and was asked this scenario question. 

You have a Windows EC2 instance and users say they can no longer connect to it via RDP. 

I would log onto the instance and check that RDP was enabled and running on the server by checking the service and permissions and see if it was listening on 3389 by running netstat -an, and I would check the AWS security groups to make sure RDP 3389 was still allowed?. 

-Yes RDP is running on the server and nothing has changed on it and none of the security groups have changed and allow RDP. 

OK, I would check any firewalls that might be restricting access. 

-No, they are all fine as well, what else. 

hmmmm, OK, so the server is running RDP and SGs are the same and no firewalls have changed. strange. I might need some more time to trouble shoot. 

- The server is down and has a Blue Screen of Death. 

Oh OK....???? 

What the fuck!!!. you just said that my netstat showed that RDP was enabled and running on the server when i checked it and now you say its crashed with a Blue Screen. you cant have it both ways!!!.

How i my supposed to diagnose a problem on a server that you say is running services but that has also crashed with a blue screen at the same time. eh!!!???????. 

i think this role has been open for a few weeks and they have not filled it. I did not apply for it and was approached on Linkedin by the senior tech recruiter of the very large financial firm that has this vacancy. He also said they needed to fill the role by Friday and seemed to be in a rush given that he was messaging me at 8pm last night arranging an interview for 10AM this morning.  

No wonder you are in a rush and have wasted weeks finding candidates. your techies are asking questions and coming up with scenarios that dont make sense. its not the answers that you are receiving that are wrong, its the questions that are wrong. I suspect you have interviewed good and competent candidates that could have filled that role and were knowledgeable, and they have been rejected because they did not give the answers you were looking for in incoherent scenarios they were presented with. 

fuck!, its tiring dealing with idiots.