I had one of the most awkward interviews' today lol

Posted by Ok_Exchange_9646@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 24 comments

I was first contacted by a SMB for a trainee program for ServiceNOW. Not the HelpDesk form of ServiceNOW but much more the Self-Service Portal part of ServiceNOW where the users can order software and extensions thru this Portal, and an automated system or some kinda admin pushes these software onto their workstations if authorized post-request The job description's requirement segment says you have to be able to script efficiently in Powershell. Check. You have to have had 3 or more years of experience in a sysadmin setting. Check. You have to speak fluent C1 German. Check. Also English C1. Check. You have to have used AD for years. Check. Anyway, the first interview with the SMB itself (MSP basically) went amazing. Both them and I had a very positive experience, it was a pleasure to talk to them about this stuff. They said there was only 1 interview left with the German MSP. Sounds fun huh? MSP providing workers to... a foreign MSP. Lmao. I know right. There should have been 3 Germans interviewing me but there was only 1 guy, the IT director specifically responsible for the training program. Both he and I had a wonderful experience. I thought this was gonna be the last interview as I had been told, and I thought I was gonna get the job. LOL I WAS WRONG. Because since the other 2 guys were missing, I had to have the 3rd interview, which took place today. MAN this was awkward AS FUCK. They first wanted me to not explain anything else but my professional background as a sysadmin. I basically summed up the entire stuff in less than 3 minutes. Years prior to this would-be job (since I'm not at all sure I'm gonna get it because it was awkward af lmao), I had been a sysadmin for a huge telecom company doing software deployment and AD stuff and some networking but mostly scripting and Ivanti DSM. That was my job. It was a sysadmin job. So I said everything I had to do, work on their hyper-v virtualized servers, Ivanti DSM, SharePoint, Teams, AD scripting etc etc. I'm not sure if I got the right idea coz they SEEMED to be unimpressed or confused, but I said all there was to be said about my professional background. Then there was one of the guys, an application developer, asking me if I had any developer experience. I told him I had created 2 GUI apps in Powershell in Powershell, one that changes the BitLocker PIN and one that maps all the network drives the user has access to as persistent local drives in Explorer. Now comes the fun part. Lol. He starts being a smartass and tries to grill me about why I didn't do it in C# instead. I kinda thought to myself since he was messing with me, I should mess with him too. I simply stated I couldn't yet develop in C# (lie coz I have actually already developed both apps in C# in a couple of months) but I had no use for doing it in C# anyway because my powershell versions are already working just fine and both C# and PowerShell are based on the .NET technology anyway, so recreating them in C# using WMI API calls would be more secure and like 3-4 seconds faster, but I have no use for that and I can't yet develop in C# (again, a lie. I'm no way a pro dev but I've already rebuilt both in C#). He was kinda... taken aback, but I'm not sure if in a "Woah, ok, I got grilled back" sense or a "Okay, he's right" sense of the word. And then this other guy starts asking me about stuff I had never listed in my CV, namely Azure and the "deeper-lying" modules of ServiceNOW which I have no clue about. But again, I've never had any of these things listed in my CV so why would you ask and then be dumbfounded that I've never yet worked with or on those modules? Kinda strange to me Anyway the last part of the interview, the same guy asked me if I've only worked on AD thru the traditional GUI or done some automation with Powershell, I said both. He said OK. Then they said thank you and I'll be hearing back from the HR of the Hungarian MSP in a couple of days. **MAN, sorry for the huge wall of text, but this was awkward as hell. Might be my autism at play but this... this was one of the weirdest interviews ever. Lmfao. I am sadly not at all positive I'll be getting the job coz either I misread their behavior/facial expressions or they truly were less than impressed.**