Job hunting oddities

[Digital Wokan]

Their little testing session took several hours of my time (along with
everyone else's there).  One guy even stopped taking the test when he
recognized the game.  (I thought maybe he was monitoring us since he
didn't just get up and leave.)
They say they're always hiring programmers there.  Even with everything
as bad as it is, I can see why they'd have to.  Who's going to sit still
for 30?

George Toft wrote:
> 
> Thanks for the info - I just applied for that one.  I was guessing
> it was low, but not that low.  My wife makes that answering e-mail
> in North Phoenix.
> 
> George
> 
> Digital Wokan wrote:
> >
> > I just took what amounted to an IQ test for CRC Info Systems (yes, I was
> > going to whore myself out as an MS programmer again... sigh).  I listed
> > my salary requirements on my resume.  The job offered just over half
> > that yet someone put "okay" next to it as if they'd discussed it with me
> > and I'd agreed.  I told their HR person that I couldn't work for that
> > low and be able to put my daughter in daycare (unless I wanted to live
> > in a studio apartment across the valley from the Sctsdl Air Park).  I
> > did ask what my score was.  The guy told me that 70 was a scarily high
> > score and that I was in the 80's.  Said it was the highest score he'd
> > ever seen on the test.
> >
> > High praise.  But, no, it's still a $30K job.
> >
> > (Is that really the going rate for ERP system programmers or are these
> > guys really enjoying the dot-bombed market?)