LOL. If it's for a technical position, then I have no qualms of trying to make the interviewed candidate cry. May as well see what they do with pressure.
I can usually tell in the first few minutes how a person thinks and how well they know the subject matter. But I like to see how they react and how they deal with questions. Are they going to fold? Are they going to buckle? Are they going to lie and BS an answer? The last is the worst thing they can ever do. I demand honesty in the work I do. If you BS me, you'll be done before you go a step further. If you tell the truth and let me know that you don't know, I'll at the very least have respect for you because I know that nobody can know it all, and I konw that the interviewer is going to ask a question that sticks in their mind as something that stumped them for a while. Either consciously or sub-consciously.
I like to ask leading questions and I like to pick at the things on the resume to verify that what they wrote is what they are capable of doing. Since this is a tech lead position, I expect a broad and deep set of knowlede and I expect that the characteristics of the person are such that they can easily refer to the SME (subject-matter expert) for particular subsystems without getting uptight about not knowing the answer themselves. It really could suck if you brought somebody in who was too uptight and insecure to let you do your job. They should be trying to help you advance vs. holding you back and causing hate and discontent.
My $0.04 worth anyway.
Al
On 7/23/06, Matheesha Weerasinghe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
All
I am currently in the process of interviewing job
candidates who if successful will become my boss ;-)
Basically the manager who will be his boss has asked
me to do the technical side of the interview and check
if the candidates are OK. I've had the "pleasure" of
interviewing 2 so far and they were pretty weak
technically. I am not sure if I have been spoilt by
the creme-de-la-creme here but I did check them a
little thoroughly especially with the candidate who
was bold enough to mention under key skills "very
strong knowledge of windows 2000/2003 Active
Directory".
Now I am definitely no expert, but if someone is bold
enough to claim that, he better not buckle up under
pressure and reply that the questions I am asking are
only worthy knowledge to those working at Microsoft.
And this is the reply I got when I asked him what the
FSMO roles did. Actually, I got a little miffed as the
guys had the audacity to demand pretty much twice the
pay I am getting and were paper MCSE's.
The feedback we received from the candidates
afterwards said the interview style was .....
aggressive.
So, my question to you guys is, if you interviewing
someone for a Windows tech-lead position (with focus
on AD), how technical would you want him to be? This
is a guy who would be steering the design of an
infrastructure to support tens of thousands of users.
Cheers
Mudha
{Newbie AD Guru wannabe ;0) }
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