Terrible interview process. I've been in touch with Adneom a few years before this interview, but at that time I managed to find something else. A year later, I'm once again looking for a job and that's the moment they contact me for some software engineer position. As always, the offer doesn't contain much information: it doesn't say where the job is located, neither what it is about exactly. Whatever, I take the shot and after quite a long phone interview (soft skills oriented), a meeting is set up at their offices.
Once I get there, a young HR guy goes through the exact same soft skills interview that I had on the phone, whereafter a technical test starts. Two parts: the first is about Python language, the second about Linux systems.
It looked a bit like a joke: most of the questions were simplistic but contained important mistakes, both technical and grammatical.
Examples of what was stated in the test:
- range() and xrange() are doing the same thing
- indentation doesn't matter in Python
- svn, git, cvs and diff belong to "Linux's configuration management tools" (I'm sincerely sorry for whoever in the world uses CVS to manage his projects' configurations...)
- ...
When I asked for a few more information to the recruiter, he told me that
- their client, who wrote the test, couldn't be wrong,
- other candidates didn't ask questions like,
- he wasn't into technic anyway, so it was pointless to argue with him.
Conversation was useless.
Once I got back home, I sent him an email pointing out some precise online resources that could help to fix the test and eventually make my point. The next morning, I received a one-line email from the HR's "business manager". Wrote in plain SMS style, it could be translated in English by something like "Hello, we haz 1 candidate who scored 18. If you want you can come and I will show you answers that questions."
At the end of the day, I've completely lost a full afternoon in the process, all that for nothing.
