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Sivlan posted:Try yourself out on the question that managed to kill the most candidates in my most recent round of interviews: How did that kill candidates? Please tell me it doesn't involve Call of Duty.
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I'm not sure if this is the right thread for talk about giving interviews. My apologies if it isn't. I just had to interview some job candidates on my own (I had sat in on other interviews) for the first time in a while and I think I kind of made a mess of it. In one of them I completely forgot about the "do you have any questions for us" part which made the ending rather awkward when he reminded me. I think I also forgot a bunch of the pro forma questions: tell me about yourself, why are you looking to change jobs, etc. What I did do, that I thought was really helpful at seeing who really knew what they were talking about, was ask some open ended, job related process questions. Someone asks you to build us the capability to do X, how would you go about that? Your resume doesn't mention any experience with Y, if you needed to learn Y, how would you go about it? I'm curious what people's thoughts on that approach are. Nobody seemed terribly put off by the questions but they likely had their poker faces on. Is there any reason why questions like that are a bad idea? They might be a little susceptible to BSing, but I think I'd rather have someone who said, "I'd look on Google" than "I have no idea."
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Edgar Allan Pwned posted:I have a question: Is there a SomethingAwful group that gets together and interviews each other (skype im guessing)? SOME OF US DON'T HAVE FRIENDS. No, not really, but right now none of my friends are available. I'd be willing to participate in such a venture. I currently do technical interviews for programming and data science positions.
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Edgar Allan Pwned posted:Oh, well then I suppose we can make one, although I may want to see if more people would be interested in it first. Is there a particular program that would be best for that? Could we even do group interviews!! To pass a group interview all you need to do is say something intelligent and not talk over anyone.
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CarForumPoster posted:Having lived in both places I can say the calculator estimation is pretty spot on for the case presented. YMMV. Consider, though, what the present value of one year's credit to the pension is. Even worse, if it's a defined benefits plan and not Federally guaranteed, the risk adjusted present value is probably close to zero.
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TheSpartacus posted:I have a couple of questions because I feel somewhat odd about a request I given prior to the interview. I'm being flown out to Texas for an entry level chemist job next week but the team manager asked me to provide him two letters of recommendation to him, although he didn't say when he wanted them. Coworkers -- preferably ones you're also friends with.
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