From: phase90 (phase90@comcast.net)
Date: Fri Apr 02 2004 - 18:30:29 GMT-3
Jan & group,
We have people exactly like this at my place of work. And we
have a word for them.
That word is douche-bag!
jvh
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jan K" <jan_k@verizon.net>
To: <ccielab@groupstudy.com>
Sent: Friday, April 02, 2004 4:20 PM
Subject: Re: Bad Interview Experience
> One interviewer I knew intentionally didn't read anything past the skills
> portion on the resume lest he become too impressed by the subject's
> experience (or underwhelmed).
>
> During the interview he would basically grill you on whatever you dared to
> put down in your skills section, looking for weak spots and fibs. If you
> passed, the interview process proceeded. If you failed, goodbye. It was
just
> a very efficient and meritocratic way of narrowing down the candidates.
>
> This person, btw, had 10+ years of experience, starting out as a cable
> installer, and was a vp at the time working for a major bank/brokerage
> (csfb). He didn't have a single certification and found people who had the
> audacity to call themselves experts (the e in ccie) totally unimpressive
and
> somewhat pretentious after one of them couldn't tell him what the default
> enable password for Catalyst 6500's was.
>
> - Jan
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Chris Larson" <clarson52@comcast.net>
>
>
> > My VistaPrint Electronic Business CardI just thought I would throw out
an
> > experience I had yesterday. It was very unnerving and I wonder if others
> have
> > had similiar experiences. I have been in networking for better then 12
> years
> > but only got CCIE certified in the last year. I have had lots of
> interviews
> > throughout my carreer, most have had a technical aspect but I never felt
> > uncomfortable in any of them until yesterday.
> >
>
> <snip>
>
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