Mary Ann Liebert interview questions

Freshman level approach. I was begged by a recruiter to interview. The ppl at MAL were rude, uninformed, late, and full of themselves for no apparent reason. First off if you think ANYONE wants to schlepp to your locale from NYC or anywhere else it's not going to happen so they are ancient in that sense and for a substandard base demand you come out to Wewstcheser each day. The interviews themselves were a waste. Not one of them had taken a minute to look at my resume, I could tell. They asked basic q's a ten-year-old would ask from an Interviewing for Dummies book maybe? The first person could not hear anything, even though I had heard her fine and had a clear line, maybe your hearing aid was not on? So most of the call I had to repeat myself, good lord. The second woman was an angry beast who announced " she was "ten minutes late since I have been interviewing all day and now this will only be twenty mins (was supposed to be an hour...) and then proceeded to grill me like a police interrogation and cut me off mid-sentence "that's enough, got it", Classy. The kicker was I asked (since she made such a big hurrah out of "peer review " ad sales being so special what really made it so different as brands could care less and was seeing if she could spell out what made the pitch so different and reminded this gem that I came from her competition who BTW is the LEADER in peer review and these guys hold a distant candle to them and she got mad and started sputtering nonsense frankly with no real answer. I never work for anyone that can't calmly answer a question and these guys can't. This place is filled with dinosaurs from the '80s and should be given a make-over. Avoid. Before it went any further I told them no thanks, I don't need to speak to anyone else.

An external staffing company reached out and I went through their initial 30m HR screen before scheduling for a direct talk with the CIO and Lead Tech. Client's immediate need is a senior WordPress developer with wide sysadmin and devops experience to fix their flagship publication's sites' plugins conflicts which disable development thus business goals. Their internal team also asked for the developer to teach them all that was done. After that immediate task of 4-8w, they need .NET programming. I could handle the former but have neither desire nor comfortable writing the latter much less a career in that aging, corporate, proprietary tech stack. I thus withdrew myself from recruitment.