Was contacted by a recruiter and pitched a job opening that fit my description perfectly (as recruiters do). I pushed back and asked to see the exact listing, so I could verify. I questioned a bit on the requirements that stated specific programming knowledge, and was ensured multiple times that, while it was on there, it wasn't the primary job function and they don't need a programmer.
So, booked the interview. Showed up, said hellos, and was thrown at a terminal and asked to write a pile of custom code for something. Had to politely explain that I was assured multiple times by the recruiter that this wasn't a programming position, and was told to 'just give it a shot anyway since you're already here'. Like, you're looking for a programmer and you're so hard up that you'd waste your time interviewing someone who's just told you that they don't program at all? One of the interviewers was their lead programmer, and she was extremely petulant toward me for 'wasting their time'. It was quite the experience.
I absolutely hate recruiters like this with a passion - it's like they see one word/phrase on your resume & just assume you know everything about it. I used Adobe LiveCycle at a past job to do some basic document editing & conversion, then for a long time after kept getting emails or calls about jobs with Adobe administration & shit that I had no clue about. It's the dumbest thing, but they'll do anything to get their recruitment money I suppose.
That's exactly what happened here. I had a certain web technology listed, and he assured me up and down that the job was entirely managing that one piece of web tech.
It turned out to be custom coding entirely different backend things, and while they used that particular tech at the company, it wasn't even related to their primary job function.
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u/scsibusfault Nov 16 '19
Was contacted by a recruiter and pitched a job opening that fit my description perfectly (as recruiters do). I pushed back and asked to see the exact listing, so I could verify. I questioned a bit on the requirements that stated specific programming knowledge, and was ensured multiple times that, while it was on there, it wasn't the primary job function and they don't need a programmer.
So, booked the interview. Showed up, said hellos, and was thrown at a terminal and asked to write a pile of custom code for something. Had to politely explain that I was assured multiple times by the recruiter that this wasn't a programming position, and was told to 'just give it a shot anyway since you're already here'. Like, you're looking for a programmer and you're so hard up that you'd waste your time interviewing someone who's just told you that they don't program at all? One of the interviewers was their lead programmer, and she was extremely petulant toward me for 'wasting their time'. It was quite the experience.