Thanks Al. Thats very useful. I value those comments
more than $0.04 ;0). Especially the comments in the
last paragraph. The last thing I want is someone who
is going to prevent any of my suggestions getting
through because he doesnt understand and has influence
over the final design.
I had one guy who claimed to be from a reputable IT
services company and he explained a redesign he'd
done. Basically he wrecked a perfectly working and
functioning detailed role based delegation model
because it was too "complex". Instead of the
structured organisation the original plan had based on
location and business unit, he basically classed all
users as "normal" and "admin". Domain admins all over
the place. 2nd level support guys with schema admin
rights because "they were trained to make the
necessary application specific schema changes." WTF?
And what's up with these damn contractors that want to
re-build from scratch a lab just because they cant fix
it. And all that was wrong was there was no
_msdcs.forestfqdn to resolve gc records. Beats me how
they get jobs.
Ugh!
I cant believe that people have the guts to lie like
that on their CVs.
Cheers
--- Al Mulnick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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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