FAIRFAX DATA SYSTEMS interview questions

Phone interview, then an onsite interview. Onsite consisted of two 'tests': 1. Answer questions based on IBM Software documentation 2. Timed programming challenge in language of your choice. Not too difficult After the tests, I met with the CEO and reviewed my resume and discussed what opportunities were available at Fairfax and how, if I got the job, I would function within the company.

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.