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pawz
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Toughest interview question you faced? How did you respond?
Toughest interview questions you ask? What are you expecting to hear or find out about someone?
Toughest interview questions you ask? What are you expecting to hear or find out about someone?
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"Everyone says they are a good communicator or have excellent communication skills. What is a good communicator to you and what examples can you give where you've had a breakthrough due to good communication?"
Who’s going to say, “well, I have an attention problem that I deal with by surfing/ posting on HCH,” which in my case is the real answer. Or “I eventually find my work to be boring and I therefore drift in and out of focus and waste a lot of time. But I’m adept at getting shit done when the pressure is on and so in the end it’s no big deal.”
Those are real answers for me.
The other ones sound made up. I guess one would be, “I’m a bit of a perfectionist and sometimes have a hard time letting go of a project when it’s gone past the point of diminishing returns.” I’ve used that; but it’s complete bullshit. I just made it up one day getting ready for an interview.
The one I ask that seems to trip people up, or at least
ID the ones who aren’t prepared, is “why here?”
Surprisingly people are often not ready for that one.
Just kidding. Obviously the answer is that they don't but they need a fucking paycheck.
The only interesting one to me when I'm hiring IT dudes is "we do a lot of different things here, what are you interested in and would like to explore further?"
Then when a jackass goes.....well I really just like the help desk. I think I want to focus on that. GTFO
With the questions I’ve asked them, it’s either been, “walk me through a day in the life of the person that holds this position” or “if you could change anything about this department/company, what would it be?”
True be told the interview “question” (though it’s not really a question) that still to this day is a challenge is “so tell me a little bit about about yourself.” I usually shoot back with “what do you want to to know?” This could be them just making small talk, looking to see if you’re a decent cultural fit... I don’t know. I hate overly broad questions like that.
You ready for it? Get this: Run. The. Damn. Ball.
BOOM goes the dynamite! When can I start?"
People call him and beg for his services.
The truth is, The Throbber has fired way more clients than he's kept around.
Fuck cheaters.
It’s a softball but you’d be surprised how many swing and miss.
Another fun one is when they have too many jobs and show less than 3 yrs at most of them... so you’ve had a few jobs, can you explain to me why you’ve left each one and why if I hired you would you still be here in 3 years?
@Pitchfork51
Me: "I don't understand the question because looking at the schema it doesn't seem like this was designed well for domains that involve these kinds of queries regularly"
Interviewer: [who designed said schema] "............."
Me: "............"
Interviewer: ".........."
Me: "........well, thank you for your time! Good luck with your Silverlight system (that will kill your company within 2 years)!"