I applied online. The process took 5 weeks. I interviewed at FAIRFAX DATA SYSTEMS (New Milford, CT) in Nov 2016
Interview
After an initial phone screening, which went rather well, I appeared at the appointed time at their offices in New Milford. It appeared that they didn't know that I was coming even though I had a well established appointment. It took the Human Resources representative, with another tech, 30 minutes to get a skills review test up on a computer in a conference room. Once the half hour test began, it became imminently clear that the pages I was given to look at for a reference had nothing to with an obsolete IBM program, and that there was no resource to use to answer any of the questions. Thus, it was a useless test, and measured nothing.
There was a second C# .Net test, but I didn't take it. The operating procedure of the company by this time had become clear and there was no reason to continue. Someone else I knew interviewed there and reported that the programmer doing the technical part of the interview treated him like a liar and a felon - this is really a company I want to be part of.
I politely excused myself, told them I had no intention of following up, and left, sadder but wiser for the waste of time.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
To perform an archaic IBM test with documents that had nothing to do with the technology.
They had me come in and take a programming test. Fine. Instead they gave me a problem to solve and put me on some IBM website with poor outdated documentation. The documentation had nothing to do with the exam and was a bunch of filler.
Second part of exam was an actual problem which could be solved but a bit unclear. The whole process was poorly done and might have been the worst programming test ive ever seen.
The interviewer seemed to be more interested in someone that can just hit the ground running. I got the impression they were looking for someone more senior level. The questions were straightforward which was good and I like that he got to the point. However I dont think we saw eye to eye and I think he judged me based on my answers (which is fair). I wouldnt say I answered poorly. Instead I dont think the answers were what he was looking for and because of that dismissed me as incompetent. Whatever.
