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It should be noted that Steve has said elsewhere that he can't use these questions anymore because everyone knows them. Thus, I wouldn't follow this template t
by j_baker 17y ago
It should be noted that Steve has said elsewhere that he can't use these questions anymore because everyone knows them. Thus, I wouldn't follow this template too closely. That said, it's a good way to get a general idea about how to ask these kinds of questions.
- neilk 17y agoThose particular questions are now toast, but the essay was always about the five subjects he asks about.
- gaius 17y agoThat's a problem for everyone. We (like many other organizations) use third party recruiters, and the latest ad one of them has put out very clearly indicates that they've been quizzing (unsuccessful) candidates about what we asked, and are now trying to coach candidates in them. Unfortunately said recruiter is non-technical and a) the ad now makes no sense (e.g. if I ask "what is a deadlock?" it doesn't translate into "must have 5 years of experience of deadlocks") and b) some of the canned answers they've been giving to our questions are wrong, so we get a stream of candidates all parroting the same wrong thing.
- silentbicycle 17y agoIt'd make me laugh if somebody's resume listed "5 years experience with C++, deadlocks, linking errors", though. :)
- gaius 17y agoNo joke, one dude I interviewed claimed so-many years experience of C++, it turned out he meant experience of running programs written in C++ on his PC (!) I really am utterly mystified why people do this. It was the first skill he listed. Did he not think an interviewer might ask him about it? And even on the offchance he blagged his way through the interviews, he's not going to be able to fake it to the machine and he'll be found out on his first day. It really shakes my faith in human nature, interviewing :-(