I applied online. I interviewed at CyberData Technologies (Herndon, VA)
Interview
First interviewer said I would be a salary-based exempt employee (a lie). If your contract ends with their client or the client removes you, Cyberdata will terminate you. Their positions are advertised with no salary range showing, so they can low ball candidates. I was low balled for the role. Second interviewer is like talking to a statue on camera – not competent but very proud, everything is handed down to him, acts like the chosen people, he was bickering a lot, holds back his arrogance, and just follows what the government says. On camera, this interviewer complained about me wanting to participate in the job description, and then complains about all of the workers there doing very little. Same interviewer teased me on camera about my availability and acted like I’m the one they want – a facade of lies. He then complained about the cost of living for people in that area, like he cares about any of them. He is NOAA affiliated and behaves exactly like NOAA’s mentality: very left leaning, complaining about everything, speaks negatively, fakes being positive in the interview, supports only foreigners and friends, and doesn’t follow EOE standards. Cyberdata is about pro DEI hiring and pro foreigner instead of American hiring. They are bias towards hiring Mainland Chinese, and will fill the role with one of them or one of the second interviewer’s friends. Cyberdata and their client uses surveillance on candidates and if they don’t like you, it’s a rejection. First interviewer followed up with a phone call, with which he sounded uncomfortable, sounded forced to call me yet didn’t want to, and gave me lies for a rejection. I was very comfortable compared to him, which says a lot.
I applied online. I interviewed at CyberData Technologies in Dec 2025
Interview
Contacted by HR rep who was very courteous throughout the process, and excellent to work with. I can’t say the same for the Business Development and Growth VP who interviewed me, what an amateur. He was completely unprepared in his questioning. He didn’t have any technical or proposal writing background for which I was interviewing, just hypothetical sales questions. When I asked what his strategy was for approaching clients, he said it was based on what the clients government websites said (on a high-level) about ’transformation', which struck me as a complete fantasy. He asked twice early in the interview if what he was wanting to do sounded crazy and if I wanted to end the Teams call then and there. I did actually think it was crazy, but tried to be respectful and kept going with the interview. The following week, the same HR contact reached out to say I didn’t get the job, which is perfectly fine, the role and company sounded highly unstable and sketchy. ‘On a wing and a prayer' is no strategy for trying to recruit and build out a team of professionals, then try and land new business. He didn’t even know what a style guide is. Good luck finding someone for this! I know I dodged a bullet.
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Question 1
How would you go about putting together a solution?
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 days. I interviewed at CyberData Technologies (Herndon, VA) in Dec 2018
Interview
I was asked how well my written and communication skills were and also if I knew of any style guides. Then I was asked how well my background knowledge of technical language was.