My brain is numb from the unfair IT world
Here is the scenario:
An IT (Information Technology) team of 6 people. Two are IT managers, one project coordinator, one system admin, one developer, and one tester. That’s a fucking expensive team. For each person who is not a manager, they get their own boss. 1-1 ration. Holy crap!
Now I wonder why I can’t get a job. IT teams are messed up! Not only that, more than 70% of them did not even study anything related to technology or know anything about IT. I love it when I go to an interview, and the IT mangers say, “we have no idea how to code or know anything about programming, we just manage.” And those are the people that make the decisions in hiring for an IT job?
Friggen ridiculous. Good thing my site is picking up and people are buying advertisements from me, because seriously, at this rate, I am gonna scream from this unfairness!
God help me.
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This was today’s interview. I was a bit ticked off on how weird it was. I am sick of going to interviews and having to witness the unfair world at play!
wheres the hello my name is mona?
i dunno why u cant have a job, just get a job if ur dieing to get one jeez , life is not fair , and your not going to change life with your position in work
get a job its not a rocket science
best wishes
@yazan
I will wear a sign on my chest that says, “MY NAME IS MONA. HIRE ME!”
Are you stupid or something? Or you live in La la land and think life is just plain easy and anyone can get a job with a snap of a finger?
If you don’t like what I say, then I suggest you don’t read or comment. Seriously, you don’t know anything about the world!
your called me stupid mona that wasn’t nice
Hi Mona! Sorry to hear about the lame IT group — but seriously, I guess you wouldn’t want to work for them anyway, with that lame structure, right? If you can figure out a way to make money, it seems like you’d be a lot happier working for yourself!
That said, I think you might find some better IT companies around, but maybe they’re harder to find. I worked for 3, and they were all very different!
But I, too, was shocked about how the managers sometimes didn’t know anything! Check this out — one time I got to help interview new IT manager candidates, and I managed to get our company to add “Tell us how you would sort an array of 10 integers in ascending order” to the interview questions. This one guy, with like 15 years of IT management experience, making god-knows how much $$ in his management job, seemed really confused. Finally, after much deep thought, be gave us a “solution” to the sorting problem (note that we said “use any programming language you like, and sketch a solution.” — we didn’t require the actual code even, just pseudocode or ideas…).
His solution: “Well, first install SQL Server. Then make a table that holds integers, and write some Java code to populate the table with the array to be sorted. Then you can do a SQL query to sort the table, and get the results in the right order. Then you can pull the results out and put them in a new sorted array.”
OK, that may work, but I was hoping for something like a brain-dead bubble sort algorithm in Java, or even using a built-in Array class with a Sort function is better than nothing. But *installing SQL Server* to sort a list of 10 integers? Come on!
Good luck with this ridiculous IT losers!
Your complaining about the lack of programming knowledge on that IT group is moot. There are people who concentrate on web developing, people who concentrate on data centers, people who concentrate on networking – that’s the reality of IT.
I’ve spoken to developers who know nothing about PHP, .NET or Java. Why? Because the last 5 or 10 years of their life has been spent maintaining old custom-built software like an ERP or BI solution and the company won’t let them take any training classes to bring them up to speed and they don’t have the time to take weekend or night courses.
To expect an IT Manager, someone that the rest of the business expects to know everything about everything, to actually know how to code, how to manage a network and manage the data centre and desktops all at the same time is ridiculous. They’re clearly looking for a developer because they don’t have that expertise in-house at the moment.
Just be happy you weren’t meeting with the HR person!
@Derek Silva
It was with the HR too, and they ask the weirdest questions. And I am talking about young IT managers with their degrees or diplomas on the wall of something totally unrelated. Maybe I should have been more specific.
I had a job once where we were going to be taking over quite a few ATM networks. The guru that was hired only knew one thing about ATM; asynchronous transfer mode.
He knew what the acronym meant and he was hired.
@Chris Short
Now that’s what I call dumb!
My husband has been in IT for years – around 25 – the IT world is really changing and it is getting harder to find positions inside really good companies because if the problem you speak of. My husband has had his own business for about 10 years. He works on different contracts and has had a lot of luck with Government contracts, he goes to their website online and they have lots of different contracts up for bidding – I don’t know how the Government works in Canada but if you haven’t tried this you might want to – he has worked from home on lots of different projects and stays very busy AND he doesn’t have to deal with all the crap, like the IT bosses who don’t know how to turn a computer on.