call bullshit

so the place that wanted someone who was a network engineer and a devops specialist and a vmware engineer and a windows engineer and a linux engineer and a citrix engineer and someone who would take calls escalated from the helpdesk, have asked to interview me. This interview could either be a shit show or it could turn out that they show some semblance of being reasonable in the skills they are looking for. it dont matter. they money is very good but i also have accepted a job that i am due to start in a weeks time, so whatever happens, i will be OK. 

Just as a bit of prep before my interview at the firm, i did a bit of a linkedin search to see the backgrounds of the people already working at the firm, and one of the profiles stood out. Some guy that graduated 6 years ago, and who was working in IT but also working in a supermarket until 3 years ago suddenly seems to have become a kubernetes and devops and terraform whizz whilst also creating and configuring CI/CD pipelines?????. Nah, sorry, i dont buy it. 

He has also listed 2 basic azure certifications and whilst he has not bothered to post these as approved and verified credentials he has for some reason given the test score????. who gives a fuck about the test score. its a pass or fail thing. Sorry, but i call bullshit on that. his career just dont add up and there is no way you can have accumulated the breadth and depth of experience he claims to have in just 3 years. 

I will go to the interview. i wont bullshit. i know what i have done and dont need to use my vivid imagination to embellish it.   

I have worked in lots of places and worked with lots of talented people. I have also worked with people who thought they were 'the shit', but were actually 'just shit'. after working in nearly 2 dozen firms and with hundreds of people, i think i have developed a good bullshit detector, and its going off loud with this dude. maybe i am wrong but i really doubt it.