[colug-432] the /etc test

[Chris Embree]

Technical and Personality Type questions are different.  It's not a
waste of anyone's time to understand a thought process.

If someone asked to "move on" from this type of question I would
assume that they will not play well with mgmt types.  If the position
called for doing that, they'd not get an offer.  HOWEVER, if the
position required someone who could work hours on end w/ an occasional
pizza under the door, I might hire them on the spot.

$0.02

On 7/25/14, Tim Randles <tim.randles at gmail.com> wrote:
> If the point is not to ask reasonable questions you're wasting valuable
> interview time.  A good candidate should recognize your question as being
> unreasonable and ask to move on.  Would you want an employee wasting time
> considering unreasonable requests or identifying them as unreasonable and
> explaining why?
>
>
> On Fri, Jul 25, 2014 at 9:39 AM, Angelo McComis <angelo at mccomis.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> The point is not if it is a reasonable question. The point is to let the
>> candidate solve a problem.  Show me how you'd try to solve it. Show how
>> they think. Everyone's answer would be different.
>>
>> We could easily argue that not too many people can name the purpose of
>> every file in /etc. At least not in super level detail.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Jul 24, 2014, at 9:51 PM, Tim Randles <tim.randles at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Candidate: "I would need several megawatts of power. Please ask me a
>> serious question."
>>  On Jul 24, 2014 7:37 PM, "Angelo McComis" <angelo at mccomis.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Speaking of tests, this came up on another list where I participate...
>>>
>>> Ask the candidate how they would go about presenting a very large sum of
>>> disk - say 700 PB to a system. What would you need, how would you go
>>> about
>>> it?
>>>
>>> Would really let you see how the person thinks through a problem.
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