I applied through a staffing agency. I interviewed at Robert Half (Irvine, CA) in Jul 2012
Interview
They brought me in to their office in Irvine, CA to interview with a sorry recruiter claims to be a technical recruiter. Acted like a used car salesman. Was all over the place and drilled me on where I interviewed and with who. He wanted names and numbers too. He said he was using me to get names and numbers to help me out and not to double submit me. Ya right, when I told him I don’t remember he was like ok what about hiring manager you worked with. He boldly told me that he wants me to give him leads. After he wasted my time for an hour. They did not even validate my parking. It cost me $14 dollars and never heard back from him again. I emailed him and called him no reply. Scam staffing firm
I applied through a staffing agency. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Robert Half in Aug 2025
Interview
I got a cold call from one of their recruiters for a job with a raiting company(stocks). They had recently placed a person there who already got let go. I was told the interview would be a one 30 minute interview with the CTO. I was told they needed someone who was full stack but really it was for someone working on ETL database stuff. The interview was odd, i got asked one coding question and the rest of the time I felt like I was talked down to because I came from the banking industry. I was a little insulted as I have been in the IT industry for over 16 years. Then of course I can't get any response from the recruiter at Robert half. This is just another staffing agency who talks like they are your best friend and then ghost you.
Felt like a fake mock interview where nothing technical was really asked. Kind of a phishing attempt to jerk me around for many weeks without any results. Not sure if they really were truthful but it was a complete waste of time with sugar coated deception.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Literally no questions on the skill set. Just shooting the breeze as if wiling away the precious 30 minutes of an unemployed hopeful. Cruel and sadistic.
I applied through a staffing agency. I interviewed at Robert Half
Interview
The Interviewer setup a skype meeting it was over the weekend. Initially it was very casual meeting and just try to get to understand the scope and get the feel of what the goals are. It then step up to more situation type interview.