the commodities trading firm that interviewed me at the beginning of December have still not found anyone because the same role has been advertised again by the same agency by the same agent. I recall in my interview I had a 25 minute informal chat on the phone, with little detailed technical questions, and they decided they did not want to hire me. I suspect the same has happened to other candidates over the last couple months as well.
I looked up the hiring manager on linkedin and he has spent the last 25 years doing Active Directory and specializing only in identity and access management and Entra ID. no virtualization, no AWS, no Windows, no linux, no SQL, no terraform, no kubernetes, no firewalls, no networking.
i suspect they want a specific type of candidate. one that is not too curious to learn. one that is content to just repeat what they know in a very narrow field.
i am no exceptional technically. i am exceptional in my willingness to constantly put myself in a positions to be judged and be messed around by idiots and company men who are time wasters, in the hope they i will eventually land a good new role where i can learn and work with interesting people. in the meantime i have to walk through the jungle of idiots to get to where i want to go.
I applied for a job at an AI firm last week. not OpenAI but the other big one that is not owned by google. it sounded amazing on the job description. they were not overly specific on a particular tech and emphasized and willingness to learn and collaborate and contribute. they are paying silly money and will be able to attract top talent from any hedge fund or big tech firm.
call me in. i would just be happy to take the interview and talk to them. i dont care about being rejected.
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