Case in point: Passing the entrance job examination with a high score
I applied for this company, let's call it company Q. When I arrived there I was shocked that there was a lot (I mean A LOT) of people lining up waiting for their turn to be interviewed by the HR. Thankfully though that was not the line I was supposed to fall-in-line since it was for those applying for call center agents.
I was applying as a network systems administrator.
Ok, really I wasn't applying for a network sysadmin, I was applying as a programmer. There was another guy that was also scheduled to take the test. We casually talk about our past jobs and I knew that I was dead meat compared to this person since he worked with Cisco servers, etc.
The HR told me that she knew I didn't applied for the network sysadmin position, but explained that she just wanted for me to try.
And so the test begun.
And was it hard. No make it very hard!
There were 20 questions, situational ones where they present a scenario and ask what went wrong, how to fix it, what's the output, what's the best topology, etc...
So I went home and cleared my mind that there's any chance I could pass that exam. I mean for real.
And the surprise of my life, I received a call and the HR told me that I have an interview later that evening. So I went to company Q's office and waited for my turn to be interviewed.
During my interview, the admin asked me if I had any previous encounter with a Cisco router or configured any kind of network related equipment - and my answer was a short "no sir". And he had this look on his face that seems baffled, he asked me how can I get such high scores and yet didn't know a thing about Cisco routers or network equipment configuration for that matter?
Of course I did some intellectual reasoning and didn't just admit that it was pure luck.
But I guess my luck ended there. I was not employed by company Q.
I hope that the other person got it, he deserves the position anyway.
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