peeonyou [he/him]

california comrade rooting for the orcas killin yachts

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Cake day: October 16th, 2023

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  • Absolutely. I’ve always done some sort of IT work but mostly by chance and by who I knew. I got a job in high school doing IT for a local photo studio that took my senior picture because it was right time right place. I got my first good job because my sister’s neighbor was a huge nerd and we hit it off when I moved in with her, and he taught me all about TCP/IP and then got me a job at the ISP he worked at. From there I was able to get other jobs and have been doing fine without a degree. But really, timing, persistence, and networking are key.











  • I had an interview a month or so ago with a company who was looking for me… like… almost exactly me. I don’t think I could have matched their job description any better.

    The initial interview with the recruiter went super well. He was so excited to move me on. He even called me the day before my next interview to let me know the hiring manager was a little bit of an odd bird in interviews and wouldn’t like it if I go into extreme technical detail in my answers of his questions but I should stick to broad answers. I thought, huh, okay that’s a little weird for an IT position at this level but okay.

    Then I had my zoom call with the hiring manager the next day. He did not ask me about my past at all and only wanted to “have a conversation where there are no wrong answers” which he started by giving me extremely vague hypothetical situations where I constantly had to ask for more information and he would purposely omit details so he could turn around and “GOTCHA” at the end of each of my answers. The questions he posed had next to nothing to do with anything in the job posting and he sat there with a smug smarmy smile on his face the whole damn time. It was next to impossible not to go into technical detail because of what he was asking and I could just see his eyes glaze over if I talked for more than a few seconds at a time without him being able to smugly say something.

    I highly doubt they’ll find anyone to fill that role if they have to interview with that twat but god help anyone who is both unlucky and desperate enough to pass his interview and take the job.