Job InterviewsIf it's not the "where do you see yourself in five years time" question, it's the trick questions they throw at you to make them feel superior. Tell us about your worst job interview and the most unsuited candidates you've seen. BTW: Please don't use the question board to send messages to each other. It makes the whole thing unreadable for everyone else.
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chthonic, Thu 20 Jan 2005, 9:51)
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consultantswent for an interview with an IT consultancy. the bloke on the phone interview had already irritated me. i was given a java exam despite having pointed out i didn't know any java (recruitment scum must have lied on my behalf). anyway, the interviewer was a real snooty cow and i decided halfway through i wasn't interested and started winding her up. i think i made a good case arguing that it was more important for a consultant to appear honest than to be honest, and conveying my generally low opinion of her profession :)
some years later i was interviewing this lass to be a PHP developer; not only did she fail to answer any of the questions on the written exam i set (i'm a bastard, me ;-) ) but:
"in XML, what are the pros and cons of DOM versus stream/event based parsing?"
"err.. i don't know"
"you've got XML written on your CV, right here"
"um"
next!
(, Thu 20 Jan 2005, 17:50, Reply)
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