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      Windows Engineer Interview

      26 Aug 2012
      Anonymous interview candidate
      San Antonio, TX
      No offer
      Negative experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Argo Group (San Antonio, TX)

      Interview

      Interviewing at Argo is a VERY long process, which takes a candidate an average of 2-3 months to complete (*I've actually heard stories in which it took up to 6 months*) - remember this time frame. The fastest I've heard of was 2 mos, and that's because the hiring manager brought in someone they personally knew. Basically the breakdown is as follows. - Phone interview with HR - F2F with a senior admin/engineer - F2F with a couple of junior admins, and then F2F with the hiring manager immediately thereafter. YMMV, but from what I experienced, and what I've known others to experience, is that the interview process with HR, the Senior engineer/admin, and hiring manager is pretty straight forward - They will ask you questions about your resume, accomplishments, and some technical questions. The weakness I see, however, is with the Junior admins. They will spend the majority of the interview talking about themselves - how they "started as helpdesk, and worked their way up", patting themselves on the back, and basically boast how they are the SME of what they do, and how valuable they are to the company. (The two that I had were only with the company for 3 or less years). When they do finally start to ask "relevant" technical questions, they'll ask questions totally unrelated to the position. In my opinion, (and it's just an opinion), the junior admins are just trying to feed their own ego (again it's just an opinion, YMMV). I've gone through this process TWICE, and each time, I'd be 1 of the 3-4 potential candidates, whom they "liked", only to delete the position, and create a redefined position, and say "We'd like to see more candidates". AND, this is for a contract-to-hire, position, because they say their normal process takes too long. Probably the most frustrating feedback that I've heard from some recruiters about why they didn't hire someone, is because when candidates were asked to rate themselves from 1-10 on a particular skill, those that said "9-10", were deemed as "too egotistical, and nobody is really a "9-10", and those that said "5-8", were deemed as "not the skill level they wanted".

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      Questions regarding SAN, Network, and VMWare administration, even though the job description doesn't mention any of it, and the junior admins even stating there will be no SAN, Network, or VMWare duties as part of this position they are interviewing for.
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