>>Dean;
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>>There are all kinds of experiences we have had. I had an interview with a company and met with the manager and supervisor who went through a list of questions about VFP. Having survived that they had a room with six programmers sitting at a table ready to interview me. They handed me a list of the company’s current problems and asked me, “How would you solve these problems”? I told them, “If you hire me I will solve the problems you have but I am not giving information for free”! End of interview.
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>>After that interview I found out from another developer that was how the company solved its technical problems – conduct an “interview”.
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>>Tom
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>Why using this kind of deloyal technic, they just have to post a question on forum like UT!


When looking for employment you have no control over any of the factors involved other than yourself. Is this a real job? Only the company knows. Sometimes companies go through headhunters and are not honest. Other time’s headhunters are not honest. It does not take long to “get the word out” as to what companies and headhunters SUCK!

You answer a newspaper ad for a job and receive no response. Do this 50 or 200 times and you begin to get the picture. Try the Internet for jobs. Again, how hard is it to respond to your e-mail? When you get no responses or very few, what should you think? Then as happened to me, I get two job offers and a response from a headhunter (within a few days of each other) from resumes sent two years ago. This is the first time the headhunter contacted me. I interviewed at the two companies two years ago.

When you are trying to survive and feed your family you should not have to go through these types of actions. However, this is the real world and expecting others to have ethics and morals is too much to ask for these days. More important is, “What’s in it for me”? “Don’t bother me because I have a big date coming up this weekend”. “Why should I do my job? I have a life”!

Twelve years ago is was customary in the Silicon Valley to receive at least a postcard from a company you sent a resume to indicating they received your resume. That has changed and you should expect no feedback these days. A new breed has taken over and they do not care. Good luck to everyone out there.

Tom