Re: dba interview questions

You're likely to get the kind of response my kids would give:

   "Wasn't he with the Beatles or the Stones or some other *old*     band like that?"

Hell, my son considers the Offspring to be "over the hill" and Linkin Park as starting to lose it...

About 7 years ago, I interviewed someone who listed "Phish" as one of his interests. I asked him "What is Phish?" and then spelled it for him. The expressions that swept across his face in one second ran from frank astonishment, to disbelief, to pity, to a carefully-composed poker face as he answered, "A musical group that I like".

Food for thought: when I was a kid in the 70s, my father would play his "big band" records and my brothers and I would roll our eyes and leave the house. Such lame, ancient music! At the time, those recordings were 30-35 years old...

Ummmmm...

For a kid today, the Stones, the Beatles, Pink Floyd, Frank Zappa, Yes, and Bowie are far more ancient. Not just in years, but the years do add up...

..'scuse me, I think I hear a bottle of Metamucil calling...

on 10/28/03 4:59 AM, Richard Foote at richard.foote_at_bigpond.com wrote:

> Only two questions are required to ensure you get an appropriate person for
> the job (any job):
>
> 1) What do you think of David Bowie, is he brilliant or what ?
>
> and providing they answer the above question positively
>
> 2) Are you any good ?
>
> Works every time ;)
>
> Richard
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>> I ask things like "tell me the thing you've done that you are most
>> proud of" and "tell me your nightmare situation and how did you recover
>> from it"
>> 
>> Ans: My worst nightmare, my date pick her nose infront of me, I call cab

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