<div dir="ltr">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?</div>
<div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jul 25, 2014 at 9:39 AM, Angelo McComis <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:angelo@mccomis.com" target="_blank">angelo@mccomis.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><div><br></div><div>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. </div>
<div><br></div><div>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. </div><div><div class="h5"><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>
<br></div><div><br>On Jul 24, 2014, at 9:51 PM, Tim Randles <<a href="mailto:tim.randles@gmail.com" target="_blank">tim.randles@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><p dir="ltr">Candidate: "I would need several megawatts of power. Please ask me a serious question."<br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Jul 24, 2014 7:37 PM, "Angelo McComis" <<a href="mailto:angelo@mccomis.com" target="_blank">angelo@mccomis.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Speaking of tests, this came up on another list where I participate...<br>
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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?<br>
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Would really let you see how the person thinks through a problem.<br>
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