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There are a lot... I am going to pick the interview dialogue (incl. test) with the government.

Following situation:
-5 recruiters
-3 candidates (including me) who have all passed an online test that did last for 3 hours
The online test was for the government to see how every candidate is good at math, English, situation adaptation, historical questions, a little bit of techy questions like "What does fps stand for?" and basic questions like that.

Even tho I did apply for a job as a software developer, there was not a single fucking question about programming. I shit you not. Anyways...

After everyone did introduce themselves. I was given the following question by one of the recruiters:"How do you think will the regular work look like to you, if you were to schedule it? We will be starting with you, <myName>"
Me:"Since this is hopefully going to be my first job in software development, I can only assume it for now. Based on my knowledge about this specific topic that I have made by reading other software developers' work experiences in form of textual content, I guess that I am going to do this [...] and that [...]. Oh and after this comes the planning phase (I had mentioned the sprints and agile "frameworks") and meetings of how the projects are doing so far.
After this comes the phase of sitting down and getting to work on the project I am assigned to.
At the end comes the "see you tomorrow, xyz" phase and everyone leaves."
Somebody else from the 5 recruiters:"I am sorry to interrupt you right here, but we are not offering you a dev job. It rather is a mixture of dev and sysadmin. You will be working most of the time fixing someone's problem with their PC and not sitting in a dark and empty corner of a warm room."
This was such a disrespect that I could not give an answer to. I was deeply shocked. Developers need more respect. Most of the fucking things you use, are created by developers, you asshole.
"We will be very happy, if you can call us by tomorrow to let us now if you are still interested."
Me does not even bother anymore and blacklists that government as a "trust me. You do not want to work there" type of job offering place.
Since I did not sign any NDA. It is the government of Germany.

PS: I did apply for a *dev* job. But somehow they did decide to create a new job and assign me to it. That is not professional.

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  • 6
    German government dev job? Lousy pay and shitty environment. Nobody who has an alternative would take that. They probably know they can treat their applicants like that.
  • 3
    And meanwhile politicians claim "eeeew *crying* we don't get decent devs"
  • 1
    Ah the sweet sweet Bundesregierung, interesting that they are that disrespectful towards tech people. but when supporting people, what do they expect? Low level support? What was the promised pay? 11 or 13?

    Thinking about it, 3 of the 5 were probably mckinsey mercenaries. By now germony is so far in the pockets of foreign software vendors that is not even funny anymore. The Munich Linux project is here just one recent example
  • 2
    but in the end they complain about Noone applying.
    Had the same issue a while ago
  • 1
    @kleopi I guess Germans are just to expensive, even in the army https://m.tagesspiegel.de/politik/...
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