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<blockquote data-quote="The Luke" data-source="post: 728384" data-attributes="member: 1976"><p>Figured I'd bring this over here..it's a long one....</p><p></p><p>Vp of a civil engineering firm contacted me for a cad tech position. We emailed back and forth, agreed on a time for a phone call, he never called. Rescheduled, never heard from him. This happened three more time. I'd try and call and it would go to voicemail. </p><p></p><p>Finally got him on the phone, everything went well. I warn him that I currently design in microstation and haven't touched autocad in over a decade. Rusty to say the least. He says it's no problem and wants me to come in. We schedule a time, I show up, he stood me up again. So the office manager/lead designer, Tyler, does my "interview". First they hand me a test to see "what kind of personality I have". It's timed and about 40 questions total. Hand written,1-2 sentence answers. I'm allowed to google if needed, but must mark what I google. First three questions are moral dilemma type questions. The remaining 37 are the most technical autocad questions I've ever seen. Mostly coding and specific design process questions(probably easy for someone with a degree and 10 yrs experience). Meanwhile, there are three cameras aimed at me in this cube they've stuck me in and a screen monitoring program running. </p><p></p><p>Mid way through, Tyler starts asking questions about my microstation experience. What's to know if it's in ribbons, among other things... I have no clue what that means and I use this program daily. He then scoffs at me and turns around. </p><p></p><p>I finish the test, hand it to him. He then hands me the blueprints for their building. Pulls up it up on autocad and deletes 80% of the parking lot, curbs, roads, landscaping, measurements, retaining wall, etc... says I have 1 hour to redraw everything, go. At this point I feel that I am wasting his time. I remind him that I haven't used it in ten years. His response "if you knew how to use it then, there's no reason you don't know how to now". So I suck it up and draw what I can. </p><p></p><p>5 minutes into my hour(around 5pm), he stands up, tells me he's going home and the door will lock behind me on my way out. </p><p></p><p>So here I am, under surveillance, one other employee on the other side of the office, and I'm stumbling around with no clue what I'm doing. I stayed for about an hour and half. Did my damnest to draw everything i possibly could, and finally threw in the towel. </p><p></p><p>As I leave I tell the remaining employee that I saved my work and left it up in case he needed to do anything with it. He gives me a hard time about not logging out and says that the door will lock behind me, then turns around to his keyboard. </p><p></p><p>I left that place feeling like a total dumbass. Guess I'll go back to my drawing our fiber splicing...</p><p></p><p></p><p>Needless to say, I do not expect to hear back from them.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="The Luke, post: 728384, member: 1976"] Figured I’d bring this over here..it’s a long one.... Vp of a civil engineering firm contacted me for a cad tech position. We emailed back and forth, agreed on a time for a phone call, he never called. Rescheduled, never heard from him. This happened three more time. I’d try and call and it would go to voicemail. Finally got him on the phone, everything went well. I warn him that I currently design in microstation and haven’t touched autocad in over a decade. Rusty to say the least. He says it’s no problem and wants me to come in. We schedule a time, I show up, he stood me up again. So the office manager/lead designer, Tyler, does my “interview”. First they hand me a test to see “what kind of personality I have”. It’s timed and about 40 questions total. Hand written,1-2 sentence answers. I’m allowed to google if needed, but must mark what I google. First three questions are moral dilemma type questions. The remaining 37 are the most technical autocad questions I’ve ever seen. Mostly coding and specific design process questions(probably easy for someone with a degree and 10 yrs experience). Meanwhile, there are three cameras aimed at me in this cube they’ve stuck me in and a screen monitoring program running. Mid way through, Tyler starts asking questions about my microstation experience. What’s to know if it’s in ribbons, among other things... I have no clue what that means and I use this program daily. He then scoffs at me and turns around. I finish the test, hand it to him. He then hands me the blueprints for their building. Pulls up it up on autocad and deletes 80% of the parking lot, curbs, roads, landscaping, measurements, retaining wall, etc... says I have 1 hour to redraw everything, go. At this point I feel that I am wasting his time. I remind him that I haven’t used it in ten years. His response “if you knew how to use it then, there’s no reason you don’t know how to now”. So I suck it up and draw what I can. 5 minutes into my hour(around 5pm), he stands up, tells me he’s going home and the door will lock behind me on my way out. So here I am, under surveillance, one other employee on the other side of the office, and I’m stumbling around with no clue what I’m doing. I stayed for about an hour and half. Did my damnest to draw everything i possibly could, and finally threw in the towel. As I leave I tell the remaining employee that I saved my work and left it up in case he needed to do anything with it. He gives me a hard time about not logging out and says that the door will lock behind me, then turns around to his keyboard. I left that place feeling like a total dumbass. Guess I’ll go back to my drawing our fiber splicing... Needless to say, I do not expect to hear back from them. [/QUOTE]
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