>>Out of curiosity , if it is IT position should'nt it be IT or Dev mgr one who is interviewing applicants ?
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>Before being given an interview your resume is processed by HR. HR has no concept of your qualifications or the requirements of the position to be filled. If you get through the HR process and are selected for an interview then you will meet different levels of IT persons who will interview you.

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>Some interviews by IT are to "solve a problem" they have. They have no intent upon hiring anyone - they are looking for free answers to their problems.

Here is (or it used to be) completely backward situation.
I was trying to hire VFP programer 3-4 years back and ;
A) Number of resumes we received (All benefits were offered right away)
was very few
B) I had more then one applicant who came to solve his/her problem
They asked (right to my long face!) to give them letter that they were rejected. Later I learned that they need that letter in order to continue receiving money from social security.

But that was as I said 3-4 years ago when Amdocs (and few others) came to our city and inhaled almost every developer that was not attached to the (social security) wall.

>A well-known CEO from a major company here in Silicon Valley was honest on television during an interview. He was asked about hiring practices. He said that they conduct 12 hour interviews so you would “do their bidding”! They do not give benefits until you have worked for six months. Within six months “they will gain all of your knowledge” and then fire you, so they do not have to pay benefits.
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>The name of the game is to survive. :)

u r kidding me ? What a creeps!
America might be in need for few more political parties (Labor and Socialist for starters) and all bunch of new labour protecting legislations to prevent against this kind of blood suckers.

Here for what I know, they used to hv different kind of blood sucking. They wld bring foreign labour and then pay them less then they wld pay locals. Now if you are foreigner, in order to chg job you hv to leave the country and make new contract with new employer and then you might (or might not!) re-enter country. In manu cases especially with low qualified or manual labour, domestic helpers (from far east) etc this kind of 'engagement' menu times translated into pure slavery.

But this is slowly changing now that we entered EU. Now Employers hv to seek
for labour in EU first, and then go 'shopping' some place else.
Firing folowed by depportation is no longer an option.
European laws are (even over)protecting labour and prohibit against any kind of discrimination. Working conditions generally improved last couple of years for menu people here (locals and foreigners) and I kind of like when I hear/witness that.
If word 'Socialist' did not bear such painfull memories from Milosevic's Serbia I cld even vote for them here in Cyprus. Well not really, but as I am growing up I am shifting slowly from center-right twd center-left :)