On Fri, 17 Oct 2008 20:34:33 -0700, Thomas Hruska <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote Re Re: [c-prog] what's the condition for Hello world....:
>> These kind of **weird/stupid** questions are sometimes asked in >> interviews here in India. Not sure what the interviewer wants to >> actually test here. Last time I was asked this question in an >> interview, I asked back to the interviewer for the purpose / objective >> of this question and he had no answer and not surprisingly I never got >> a call back from the company which btw is a top IT company famous all >> over the world. >> >> Thanks!! and have a nice day!! >> Jaspreet > >That's the best bit of news I've read all day. You probably wouldn't >have liked working there anyway. You have your reasons for not naming >names. Interviewing is a two-way street - you are determining if the >company is where you want to work and they are determining if they want >you to work there. A quirky dance of sorts. Questions like that should >equal red flags. You have the guts to [indirectly] tell a large company >they suck at hiring people (and they clearly do for asking such a >ridiculous question). That's a big plus in my book. Not that I'm >hiring anyone (I'm not). Indeed. It's a pointless question, but that is in fact the point. They wanted to know if the OP would be comfortable with pointless directives. The OP indicated he was not. Those kinds of questions are asked by all large organizations that want/need mindless employees. -- At first they laugh at you, then they ignore you, then they fight you, then you win.
