For some context I currently work as a Data Center Tech III for an FANNG company. Took my chances to interview with a smaller startup to see what they have to offer and give a chance, especially since I’m heavily into AI. I got a reply from an out sourced small business I’ve never heard of called NuPeople for a recruiter call. When I joined, I was asked about my previous experience and was mostly asked about my experience on network configuration which was not supposed to be too hard since I have experience in CLI/GUI configuration on enterprise Linux systems and device/link troubleshooting, along with VPS colocation troubleshooting directly for customer related/impacting incidents. I also mentioned I wasn’t a network engineer myself but I work very close with network, hardware, software, and cloud support engineers. Additionally i have a high enough understanding of networking considered to be above my pay grade to be able to only escalate only when I don’t have logical LDAP/POSIX permission to do something rather than not knowing how to move forward.. As soon as I mentioned any of that it seemed like the recruiter couldn’t care less from his head shaking and facial expressions. Once I explained I have around Beginner(means: CCNA) to Intermediate(means: CCNP-ENCOR, CCNP-SPCOR) experience, I was immediately cut off and told that Crusoe wanted people like “network engineers” for this role and people “train newer people”?? Recruiter swiftly left call after saying this and I had no follow up feedback email so here it is. Pretty *rear* backwards entirely when you account for the fact the role i applied for isn’t a senior role nor is this role no where near the salary of a network engineer like at all, additionally my experience level would've definitely been higher than the mentioned “Tier 1 Troubleshooting” job duties.. I sorta felt off-put and disrespected after the recruitment process so I feel the need to leave this openly honest review. Talent Acquisition here is terrible as far as the first impression I got. Not really a problem with Crusoe internally as I never even got to meet the HM. My experience mostly came by the like 1-3 recruiters the comapany uses which gives space for calls to be out of touch and welcome a presence of bias.