Off topic --- job stuff ...
Congratulations on your job offers. It looks like you'll be making your choice from a position of multiple options: A nice place to be.
For those who don't know this, the process of seeking employment can be one of the most difficult challenges we face through life. Often this endeavour is embarked upon at a time in our lives when our esteem and self-confidence is at a low ebb, our options are quickly diminishing, our bank accounts dwindling, and the candidates with whom we are competing for positions are both numerous and equally well skilled. Many have no training and little experience in seeking work, resume preparation, and the salesmanship required to secure the necessary interviews and ultimately employment offers. This is often a larger obstacle for technical people, who, by their emphasis on developing their specialized skills, have, by necessity and time constraints, limited their exposure to environments affording the opportunity to acquire some of the 'people' management abilities which would prove so useful in landing the job.
I find it upsetting that an interviewer would be so totally insensitive as to be impolite to a job seeker. I equate it to stomping on someone who's fallen and injured. By all means, draw attention to the situation, and allow people in authority at Microsoft to look into the matter, take whatever steps are necessary to restore their good image, and insure that the individual's behaviour is not repeated. If not for yourself, the next candidate, the company, or me. Yes me! I've been insulted at a job interview, in 1986, and haven't forgotten it.
Cheers, PW. |
