Sign the client is a timewaster

[NotAllThere]

Oy! That's my gag! (although I pinched it off someone else )

I certainly pinched it off someone else. Probably you.

[BillHicksRIP]

I'd tell you a SNMP joke but you might not get it.

[krytonsheep]

Got approached by the internal hiring team from a company. Their recruitment process looks like this:

Our hiring process will take an average of 10 days:

Stage 1 - Phone Interview - 20min
Stage 2 - Take Home Technical Challenge - 2h
Stage 3 - Technical interview - 90 min
Stage 4 - Planning & Delivery Interview - 60min
Stage 5 - Meet the CTO or Engineering Manager
Stage 6 - Meet the team

What a wonderful time to be alive.

Personally, I think that process is way over the top for contractors that can be let go of in a blink of eye ( assuming it's a contract role).

But on the flip side as Whorty said, if you think of it as a sales process, it's not that bad. Let's say the gig is £450 a day (outside IR35, agency is getting paid £500), you work 48 weeks a year and you stay there for 36 months. For them they'll be paying out a total of £360k (exc VAT), so I can understand why they want to have a few extra stages to find someone who can do the work and is going to fit in.

[DoctorStrangelove]

In my experience, the obscure technologes, such as SNMP, are especially well-worth including as these can put you above the crowd

I'm not sure that including the 8085 assembler or the GA16-220 FORTRAN IV have ever done much though, to be sure, they're pretty obscure.

Or the HP Rocky Mountain Basic.

[NotAllThere]

I'm not sure that including the 8085 assembler or the GA16-220 FORTRAN IV have ever done much though, to be sure, they're pretty obscure.

Or the HP Rocky Mountain Basic.

ROSCOE script development.

[vetran]

I'd tell you a SNMP joke but you might not get it.

now you're trappped!

[BR14]

INFOMAN panel exits in HLAL

[vetran]

ROSCOE script development.

I can write "Grip", but not this famous one http://docs.aviacons.ru:8383/data_se...ro/int_ov.html even more obscure. Probably 20-50 people who have ever written it in anger.

[vetran]

I worked at a little chef for a while. Only evenings and weekends as I was at school at time. Didn't stay for very long, probably only about 3 or 4 months.

about the same it was while I was at college a happy few months earning drinking vouchers and bunking off.

[GigiBronz]

Are all 31 year olds such whingers, or are you an exception? If you want a job, roll up your sleeves and get on with it. If not, stop complaining.

You're a contractor. You run a company. It takes work for a company to win new business. See the interview process as a sales process, that's all. Or think like a permie and see it as a job interview.

They tend to be, so called generation snowflake. A lot are also very easily offended, talking with them is like a minefield. I have thick skin.

Well, I think in the very spirit of the thread this is an example of a client that does not have a role and is just doing interviews for interview's sake.
If you have 6 stages with at least 2 days between them, you'll easily get to a month and no good resource stays on the market for that long.

People more aware of how it works please correct me but: I think that they have to build proof that they've looked for resources in UK before being able to bring someone from outside. And this is very much the case with a lot of the roles I've encountered.

They need some poor buggers to be refused for pesky reasons so they can build-up the file and bring a resource on short leash.