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| This entire method of interviewing is bullshit by The Happiness Engine 04/24/2014, 4:28pm PDT | ||||
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| As someone having to interview right now and getting ABSOLUTELY NO-ONE, nothing peeves me more than smug little shits wanting to quiz about technical syntax of something they can feel smart about. "I wrote the question and looked up the answer before you can in! I can get ALL these right." Our team does not even bother asking you how to do something. You're an adult, you have touched a computer. We will ask you to tell us how your current setup works, why do you do it that way, what do you like about it, what do you hate about it? What is your philosophy about "how things should be done?" What do you like, what do you hate? What's the biggest thing you've ever personally broken.[1] Are you comfortable with constant drinking and homoerotic overtones in your workplace?
"Did you memorize the syntax to awk?" tells me absolutely nothing about your ability or your personality, no matter what your answer is. Don't get me started on managers. No you stupid little shits, someone who's job is going to be %80+ paperwork and meetings does not need to know how to restart the HBase cluster. He just needs to know how to call me. For your side, fuck those guys, working for them would clearly suck balls. My friend likes to play an interview game where he tries to get as much information out of the other party without revealing anything. Ask them what challenges they see in the midterm, what do they really like and hate, what do they think are the important issues that you're being hired to address, are they comfortable with constant drinking and homoerotic overtones in their workplace? [1] The only wrong answer to this is "nothing." Anything else tells you how they approach problems and what lessons they learned from it. If it looks like you just scared the shit out of them, have an entertaining fuck-up of your own ready that you can share first to see if you can get them to open up. |
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I bombed a fucking phone interview today by 04/22/2014, 9:31pm PDT  Re: I bombed a fucking phone interview today by 04/23/2014, 9:00am PDT Re: I bombed a fucking phone interview today by 06/19/2014, 10:25pm PDT Congratulations! by 06/20/2014, 4:08am PDT Yes, what he said! by 06/20/2014, 5:33pm PDT Condolences by 06/20/2014, 9:32pm PDT This entire method of interviewing is bullshit by 04/24/2014, 4:28pm PDT They have phone interviews for fucking now? NT by 04/30/2014, 12:33am PDT See how painful it is to be on the receiving end of this, TDARCOS? NT by 04/30/2014, 5:38am PDT |
