Re: Interview question
- From: Niall Litchfield <niall.litchfield@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: Dennis Williams <oracledba.williams@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2013 20:22:59 +0100
I guess the relevance of this approach would depend heavily on how prepared
they were to expose hires to this sort of interrogation, and how widespread
it was. I have my own.sceptical view, but recruiting people based on tech
ability and then having them crumble every time they were questioned is a
bad hr choice.
On Apr 29, 2013 7:38 PM, "Dennis Williams" <oracledba.williams@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
> Back in 96 when Microsoft was the most desired company to work for, a team
> director Jim McCarthy would end the long interviews and practice coding
> sessions with an interview where he would ask only one question: "Tell me
> why I should hire you. You've got 10 minutes." Then he would criticize
> every word, barking that their answers were unconvincing, canned or
> insincere. Trying to rattle the candidate and see how they behave under
> stress.
> I'm guessing this might be a good technique for hiring the next vice
> president, but I'm skeptical of its value in selecting good technical
> candidates. Or maybe hiring the guy who will respond to the vice-presidents
> when the database is down while the real technical experts fix the system.
> Dennis Williams
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