Re: Interview Question

From: Programming <sysdev_at_mb.sympatico.ca>
Date: 1997/06/16
Message-ID: <33A5634A.704E_at_mb.sympatico.ca>#1/1


I don't know what the experience and expertise of this interviewer is. It is a better question than a lot of the touchy-feely questions that HR people will ask you.

One big beef that I have with interviews is that often people who have NO IDEA about the technical position involved, are determining who gets hired!!!! They can't even spell the names of the tools right!!! (ie. VAS, instead of VAX). They certainly don't do the
technical positions (ie. they are not a DBA), so how can they talk shop on the issue?

Yet, they come up with very simplistic
rules of thumb for choosing or eliminating people, that have nothing to do with doing the job! ie. They know people, or the resume
was one page too long. You may add to the list here as much as you like.

It's not what I said, it's what they have written in the books that they have
written. Read the book "Surviving the Cut", and see how this guy eliminates many
very qualified people.

Anyway, my 2 cents worth.  

Paul Brewer wrote:
>
> In article <33A0323C.65B_at_netmail.mnet.uswest.com>, "R. Fingerson"
> <rfinger_at_netmail.mnet.uswest.com> writes
> >Steve Dover wrote:
> >>
> >> Frank Hubeny wrote:
> >> >
> >> > I have been able to eliminate about 50% of the candidates that get
> >> > past nontechnical screenings by simply asking them if they can do an
> >> > "hello world" program in the language in which they claim to be expert.
> >> >
> >> > So, the first question I would ask someone who claims to be expert in
> >> > SQL on Oracle would be
> >> >
> >> > Display the string "hello world" in SQL*Plus.
> >> >
> >> > --
> >> > Frank Hubeny
> >> > fhubeny_at_ntsource.com
> >> > Wheaton, IL 60187
Received on Mon Jun 16 1997 - 00:00:00 CEST

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