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CancerCakes posted:I'm interviewing today, can someone give me some interview questions that might actually give the candidate an opportunity to show their value, other than the poo poo ones I got from hr. Please?! Do you have stairs in your house?
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Ungratek posted:Tell me about a time something went wrong and it was entirely your fault Tell me every sin you've made since birth, in chronological order.
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May 2, 2024 12:53
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Motronic posted:I just took a security training that was a 20 minute fully produced story of a hacking attempt from the perspective of the hackers and our company's internal security staff shot like an ersatz episode of NCIS. Someone burnt a ton of money and on what could have been conveyed in a 4-slide deck. It was kinda surreal. My old job did this and it was great because it was so serious but had things like "back in the hacker den..." Which was of course dark and had blue lights and desktop towers and two people going "*hacker voice* I'm in", and of course it was all based on basically "hi no I don't need aml clearance to change the payment details, it's really urgent, you need to do it to get this deal through!"
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Ungratek posted:Tell me about a time something went wrong and it was entirely your fault I sigh as I unfold a printout of my posts.
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Powerful Two-Hander posted:I sigh as I unfold a printout of my posts. Hmm. *takes notes* Hmm. I see. And then? *takes notes* Of course. Nice meltdown, Mr Hander.
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May 2, 2024 13:29
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"Tell us why we should hire you"
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How many table tennis balls could fit in the fuselage of a 747?
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knox_harrington posted:How many table tennis balls could fit in the fuselage of a 747? If you're interviewing for Boeing, "How many table tennis balls would you leave in the fuselage of a 747 after manufacture?"
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Powerful Two-Hander posted:My old job did this and it was great because it was so serious but had things like "back in the hacker den..." Which was of course dark and had blue lights and desktop towers and two people going "*hacker voice* I'm in", and of course it was all based on basically "hi no I don't need aml clearance to change the payment details, it's really urgent, you need to do it to get this deal through!" Yes, it was exactly this level of cheese. Along with "technical" details that any first year IT person would know are fiction. CancerCakes posted:I'm interviewing today, can someone give me some interview questions that might actually give the candidate an opportunity to show their value, other than the poo poo ones I got from hr. Please?! On a serious note, I like to ask open ended questions about how they would approach solving a problem relevant to the position they're interviewing for...something vague, not specific and I make it clear I'm just looking for their approach, not a technical solution. That not only gets you a sense of how they operate, but gives them a chance to plug in relevant experience and get a feel for just how collaborative or individually they're likely to approach work.
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Atopian posted:If you're interviewing for Boeing, "How many table tennis balls would you leave in the fuselage of a 747 after manufacture?" I've seen Mythbusters, those would provide
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CancerCakes posted:I'm interviewing today, can someone give me some interview questions that might actually give the candidate an opportunity to show their value, other than the poo poo ones I got from hr. Please?! You’re in a desert, walking along the sand when all the sudden you look down and see a tortoise. It’s crawling towards you. You reach down and flip the tortoise over on its back. The tortoise is on its back, its belly baking in the hot sun, beating its legs trying to turn itself over, but it can’t. Not without your help, but you’re not helping. Why is that?
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Cemetry Gator posted:You’re in a desert, walking along the sand when all the sudden you look down and see a tortoise. It’s crawling towards you. You reach down and flip the tortoise over on its back. The tortoise is on its back, its belly baking in the hot sun, beating its legs trying to turn itself over, but it can’t. Not without your help, but you’re not helping. Why is that? Gonna start asking this just so I can insta-hire anyone who responds with, "The Turtle Moves."
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CancerCakes posted:I'm interviewing today, can someone give me some interview questions that might actually give the candidate an opportunity to show their value, other than the poo poo ones I got from hr. Please?! "What do you actually want to do?"
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God dammit some guy on the other side of the world has incorrectly tagged me on a photo on linkedin somehow and now I'm getting pinged with "Steve Ballsack liked a post you're mentioned in!".Car Hater posted:"Would you rather be right or be happy?" What if proving people wrong makes me happy though? (It does)
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Car Hater posted:"Would you rather be right or be happy?" "Buddy, at this point, I'd be glad to take either one"
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Powerful Two-Hander posted:What if proving people wrong makes me happy though? Well, would you objectively recommend people to hire you?
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Powerful Two-Hander posted:God dammit some guy on the other side of the world has incorrectly tagged me on a photo on linkedin somehow and now I'm getting pinged with "Steve Ballsack liked a post you're mentioned in!". Is it spam? Did they tag a bunch of unrelated people at once to try to garner views? That poo poo happens on Facebook all the time, and I could definitely see it making its way to LinkedIn.
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May 2, 2024 18:56
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Car Hater posted:"Would you rather be right or be happy?" There's a podcast called Comedian's Comedian where the host interviews comics and always ends with the question "are you happy?". That might be a fun one to throw at people.
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Trabant posted:I've seen Mythbusters, those would provide Not when the door pops off and they all flow out!!
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I found out someone at my company resigned because they wanted him to pivot into people management and he said no, and they promoted him to a management role anyway and told him he didn't really have a choice because his resources are needed there. Today was his last day lmao.
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That's a beautiful story. I wish I was that smart.
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Lockback posted:Well, would you objectively recommend people to hire you? I...hmmm.
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Hotel Kpro posted:"Tell us why we should hire you" Only hire them if they answer "Tell me why I should work for you"
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Boris Galerkin posted:I found out someone at my company resigned because they wanted him to pivot into people management and he said no, and they promoted him to a management role anyway and told him he didn't really have a choice because his resources are needed there. Today was his last day lmao. Respekt. What’s he doing next? His old job but for someone new?
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Cemetry Gator posted:You’re in a desert, walking along the sand when all the sudden you look down and see a tortoise. It’s crawling towards you. You reach down and flip the tortoise over on its back. The tortoise is on its back, its belly baking in the hot sun, beating its legs trying to turn itself over, but it can’t. Not without your help, but you’re not helping. Why is that? The turtle is represented and I have no time for grievance hearings.
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priznat posted:Respekt. What’s he doing next? His old job but for someone new? He told us at lunch today that he doesn't have another job yet. He just really didn't want to manage people.
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Boris Galerkin posted:He told us at lunch today that he doesn't have another job yet. He just really didn't want to manage people. Absolute legend
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Out: finance consultant In: Fractional CFO
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SpartanIvy posted:Absolute legend 
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Boris Galerkin posted:He told us at lunch today that he doesn't have another job yet. He just really didn't want to manage people. Powerful Two-Hander posted:What if proving people wrong makes me happy though?
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Boris Galerkin posted:I found out someone at my company resigned because they wanted him to pivot into people management and he said no, and they promoted him to a management role anyway and told him he didn't really have a choice because his resources are needed there. Today was his last day lmao. You love to see it
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Democratic Pirate posted:Out: finance consultant I was thinking about doing that on the side.
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Jesus Christ. I thought I was going to get actual work done today, but instead one of my staff members has decided, on her last day before going on parental leave, to flip her poo poo over not being allowed to take her work laptop on leave with her. Turns out she had a sneaky plan to delay her computer upgrade until her final week, got a brand new Macbook Pro from IT and was planning on taking it home with her for the next year, which would leave her replacement with no device. She then sent an enormous email to me, my director and HR claiming that it's discriminatory, that this "debacle" means she can no longer manage and track her payslips and employment paperwork (which....you can do on any non company device), and that she is entitled to keep it because..she's worked here long enough? I had to literally grab it and stuff it in my locker so she didn't steal it on the way out. Glad she did it all in writing, please enjoy your PIP when you return. People management, not even once
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She sounds like a bit of a piece of work, but you should really just give people their own laptop.
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We are a fully Krompliant workplace so the only hiring question is the riddle of steel
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~Coxy posted:She sounds like a bit of a piece of work, but you should really just give people their own laptop. Also the part about retaliatory PIP directly after maternity leave would look pretty sus, if she literally hasn't been to work for a year.
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Issaries posted:Also the part about retaliatory PIP directly after maternity leave would look pretty sus, if she literally hasn't been to work for a year. Eh, if you've got receipts for lovely behaviour with everything dated and you're just saying "Hey, you don't get to have company poo poo when you're not working and you sure as gently caress doing get to be lovely to people when they tell you no" then I dunno if that counts as "retaliatory". I agree that it's crappy to not have a laptop per person though, even in academia finding a few hundred bucks for kit doesn't seem absurd.
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