[THIN] Re: OT interview
- From: "Braebaum, Neil" <Neil.Braebaum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2004 10:26:18 -0000
Personally speaking, I'm more inclined to question a techies ability to
be able to solve something, rather than merely testing their memory.
There's nothing more I find tedious, when being interviewed, that being
questioned over whether I can remember a particular command line switch,
or whether I can remember exactly the use of a GUI and what menu options
would be required, type questions. That, or being questioned on very
specific faults, and whether you can be caught out by the question.
I'd be more interested in their understanding, their ability to be able
to think on their feet, adaptability, and how they would go about
solving a problem.
Memory is just memory - I'm more interested in whether somebody has the
ability to actually adapt, respond and learn.
Neil
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Adam.Baum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:Adam.Baum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: 19 February 2004 17:37
> To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [THIN] Re: OT interview
>
> How about something along the line of "how do you tell which
> connection someone came in on after they have logged off".
> Answer: check the local copy of the RM database. Don't know
> if this would work on XPa and XPs.
>
> Rather than try and stump the candidates, why not provide
> some real world problems you've had and ask them how they
> would solve/troubleshoot the
> process. This would bring out the person's experience and avoid the
> mastery of facts/figures.
>
> I am a master of trivia. I've mananged to get positions
> without having any real knoweldge needed for it all because I
> can read tech articles and spout back buzzwords, theories,
> etc. I have been lucky so far in that I am technically
> astute enough to pickup things real quick when my @ss is on the line.
>
> adam
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