IT BS thread

Agreed. I have always argued that it was about requirements and system behavior, and that if there are not users and admins involved in the development process then expect failure (or at least one hell of a first patch). Don’t add steps that aren’t necessary; a little extra effort on the coding side saves a shitload of effort on the operational side.

System behavior is key, and if they developers don’t understand how and why things flow the way they do they are doomed to fail miserably.

 

I'm Director of IT for a company that produces a SaaS application and I know what you guys mean. Most of my career has been bitching about why applications do stupid shit when it's obvious that there are better and scalable ways of doing things .

I'm new to the position/company and everyday I scratch my head about why things where designed they way they are on the network and server side.

The Directors of Application Development are new to the position but have been with the company awhile. The three of us agree on a lot of things which is good. Others made all the architectural decisions in the past and now it's up to the three of us to fix it .

But still devs do stuff in strange ways.

 

Hello IT people,

Can I ask you managers or supervisors a question?

-I applied to a job on 1/22

-Recruiter sends me an email on 1/25 at 4:52 pm

-I respond to the recruiter email on 1/26 at 11 am with days, and times to schedule a phone interview

-Sent a follow up email this morning

No response, no email, no rejection letter, nada....


At this point, I have written off the job.


Why do recruiters do this? Why do they contact you to schedule a phone interview and then blow you off? It's the second time this has happened to me in the last two weeks.

 

Call them. My HR department knows better to do something like that - if you're an interview candidate then they should be burying you in communication.

 

There is a number in the initial email that was sent to me, but I am not sure if calling will help, considering my recruiter hasn't responded. Do you think I should call the general HR line if they have one?

 

I would in that position. Sure would suck if someone in HR scheduled you for an interview and no one told you.

 

I don't think I have been scheduled, the initial email asked for dates and times, which i sent over, but I have not received any kind of confirmation of the interview.

There has been no correspondence after the phone interview request.

 

Oh, that's uncomfortable. They might be busy scheduling a panel, which means y'all will be paraded in front of a board one-at-a-time. I hate those. You could conceivably make eye contact with your competition.

 

So should I write it off as I didn't get the job?

wait until tomorrow to see if there is an email?

call them tomorrow if there is nothing?

seems like a good opportunity, but at this point, I am not sure if I am a candidate if I have not received any kind of response.

 

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I'd call them tomorrow (or even today) with a friendly "is there anything you need from me regarding my application?" and keep it open like that.

 

thanks dude

 

That sounds like a perfect plan. Communication is cheap, just don't over do it. And from the sounds of it, you aren't.

 

No worries. Good luck!

 

Because recruiters are usually every level HR positions, equivalent to the help desk. They don't know anything about the positions and are really just taking the position as a stepping stone to get to a higher HR position... Just like the help desk people using that position the same way. No one really wants to do that work but everyone has to start somewhere.

 

This is a good plan. I have worked with both excellent and terrible recruiting/HR organizations. HR is an overhead function, and lately my experience has been that they are underqualified and overworked for the most part. They are likely trying to coordinate multiple interviewees and interviewers for this position as well as several others, may have run into some difficulty and yours keeps falling to the bottom of the stack waiting for someone to confirm availability. They just haven't let you know that they are having a hard time. Giving them a call every couple of days shows that you are interested and pops you to the top of the stack temporarily.

When I took the job at my previous employer, it took 3 months to get through the background check. I had worked for several smaller companies or startups that had been bought out by other companies -- which was mentioned on my resume so it didn't look like I was job hopping every year or two. They got stuck twice trying to validate a previous employer -- a quick Google search had plenty of news stories showing who bought who, but both times I had to call them to find out what the hold up was. Apparently Googling or contacting the candidate when they ran into trouble was not part of their process.

 

Jesus, I'm having to create a help lead a campaign organization-wide (400K+ users) to remind people to save critical information to the network and not their desktops. Turns out that I'm finding that the mapping of individual profiles to network drives is hit-or-miss, depending on which sub-org IT department created the account.

Ugh. FML.

I pity the help desk, because I suspect they're going to have to fix about 100,000 login scripts. Oh well, not my problem!

 

My company just eliminated in-house HR. So if I need something, it's either a phone call or on the web.

 

GPO + Folder Redirection based on AD Group + Offline Files = User has no choice

Could be worse. All the network drives could be mapped using the server IP address since AD and DNS was all fucked up when I started.

 

Can't do that. We are STILL 30+ individual domains and about 30 different ways the same goddamn thing is done. It's asinine. If I had ONE WISH for this fucking network it would be to nuke the entire structure and start over from scratch. PKI enterprise too - the CAs and OCSPs are about as reliable as an epileptic chainsaw juggler.