The interview process was pleasant. I spoke with at least 4 individuals. Architect Manager, Peer, SE Manger, VP of Sales across 3 weeks time span. First let me says that I have been in the virtualization and cloud arena for years. I am a seasoned veteran. After doing my research, I realized how en-grained Openstack and there public cloud platform was for them. Knowing that, I specifically asked "How critical is Openstack for this role" I was reassured that it was not and that and that my Vmware / Microsoft and AWS Public Cloud skills are whats needed. After 4 interviews, turns out that was not the case. I get it, they have competing agendas between what Japan wants and what American IT wants. Good Luck trying to change that.
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More Info: Fujitsu presence here in American is not as strong as it is overseas. So much of that time was trying to understand and justify why a person would want to work for Fujitsu over another global IT provider. Much of the direction comes from Japan, with that, understand that Americas IT trends are seen as progressive over whats happening and being marketed by Japan. Japan leads and runs the show. Marketing and Product information ends up having to get massaged so that it can be consumed by American audiences. Fujitsu has its own Public Cloud platform that they are continuing to promote based on Openstack . This is probably the most important factor of this role over all other technologies even though the job description only points to it as a one liner. Very Very Misleading and because of that I don't rate the overall experience great and only reinforces how the needs and wants are disconnected in the organization.
