She had setup an interview with a few guys from Bank Of America, Broadway, NYC, after an initial telephonic screening in Oracle 11g fine tuning. In that Oracle 11g interview, the interviewer never asked me a single question in Oracle!!; rather he was asking about my experience and projects in general. I was smart enough to understand that the interview did not know anything in Oracle. But not smart enough to understand the fact that Ann Hardy was actually fooling me. The fact was : she promised me a job in Oracle 11g fine tuning and but in order to pacify me to take a testing job, she arranged a mock interview in Oracle making me to believe it was an Oracle job. Believing it was a performance tuning job, I went all the way to New York for a testing job !!.
Once in the second round of interview, I did not have any trouble in answering the questions in Networking, C++ and PERL. But there was no Oracle questions asked. The offer was made and I joined as 'performance engineer'. She told team is very flexible, and everyone work there for more than five years. After a while I understood it is merely testing and data collection job. An arrogant manager named Paul Puglia was leading the team. Steve Thomas was his manager, but originally a puppet. He is another 300lbs guy with no control ever. He does not have minimal amount of guts or courtesy to say anything.
My job is to test and send some report. Funnily, If I send report by 6:00 that is no good.. I have to wait until another team member who lives in California to return back from walking with his dog. He usually takes his dog walk at 4:00. Returns by 4:30 , which is 7:30 in NYC. I have to copy this crappy data in to excel sheet, format, under line them (wow.. great Performance engineer job ) and send him...
Funny thing is they suddenly escorted me out, because I was not 'up to the mark' in performance :-) and the beast Ann Hardy did not pay my salary.. leave alone 2 weeks notice, I had to fight with her for several months to get paid for the days I worked. She was saying I did not submit timesheet for the week (they escorted me out, then how I would be able to submit time sheet?)
The message of this blog, is nothing but :
1) Don't join Fujitsu or even Bank of America. Both are dangerous, politics companies.
2) If there are layer by layer in your job you are in for trouble. the layers are meant only to waste your time and do some tricks in time sheets, payment etc.
3)Now a days they will ask a lot of questions before offering. If they don't interview with relevant questions, better you be careful.
