I had 3 rounds of phone interviews and then finally an onsite interview. The first onsite interview went well. A lot of data warehousing, SQL server and SSIS questions which I had no problem answering. The second onsite interview was probably the most bizarre and humiliating interview I have ever had. The guy comes to the room and informs me that he only has 45 minutes because he has a meeting of some kind. OK, no problem. Then he asks me to model a business problem. OK, I start to whiteboard the problem. When I model something I start by asking questions that will help me with the design. As I am asking him questions about the problem, his answer is always “I don’t know”. Then all of a sudden he stops me and asks me a different question: “Suppose that I have 20 horses and I need to find which one is the fastest. The track allows only 8 horses at a time and I can only run 2 races. Can you find which one is the fastest horse?” And then he leaves the room. When he came back I told him that the problem does not have a solution. So he tells me – Well I wanted to see how you think about the problem. Now keep in mind that I have almost 20 years of industry experience and I take pride in what I do. Furthermore, I was at the time working as a consultant for a different firm. So, I asked myself: Do I want to work for this clown? As I was walking through the hall, I saw a lot of consultants “being trained” in new technologies (another term for sitting on the bench). Overall I sensed an arrogant culture.