My office is in Canada, so if you don't know the answer then probably yes :) Worse yet if you admit to being a Maple Leaf fan - any fellow Canucks on the list should know what that means.
Basically I look at the resume and try to figure out something from the resume that they should have too much difficulty extending their current tool set to do. For me the worst answer is "ask you". I do encourage the folks that work with me here to do a little homework before asking me for an answer. Sometimes in the interest of a deadline, asking right away is ok, but I find that if someone tries to find the answer for themselves it sticks longer. I want to know what a person's ability to find the answer themselves is. One thing I forgot to add, is that I also like to get a general idea what persons debugging skills are like and what experience they have with the SDLC. Duane -----Original Message----- From: CyberAngel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, April 14, 2008 9:23 AM To: CF-Community Subject: RE: Interview Questions Hehe, Well I don't follow hockey do I fail? How do you know an unfamiliar task that the candidate my not know? Is that something you spot from their resume? -----Original Message----- From: Duane [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, 14 April 2008 9:30 PM To: CF-Community Subject: RE: Interview Questions I like to find out what a person's research skills are like, especially when faced with an unfamiliar task. I also try to ask at least one question that I know the interviewee isn't likely to know. You can learn a lot about a candidate if they try to give a BS answer. I also like to ask at least one hockey question such as "Can a player enter the offensive zone prior to the puck in hockey and it not be offside?" -----Original Message----- From: C. Hatton Humphrey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, April 14, 2008 8:20 AM To: CF-Community Subject: Re: Interview Questions Here's a rather advanced one - Your client wants to import data from Excel. Other than having them convert the file to CSV/TSV and opening it as a text file, what other options are available? (There are a few different answers - CFX_Excel2Query, creating an Excel datasource and overwriting the file before parsing, using SQL OpenRowSet... and I'm sure that's just a few.) Another one that I've been asked in the past, what is the difference between Application.cfc and Application.cfm? Many interview questions are requirement and environment specific. Hatton On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 6:41 AM, Paul Ihrig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > post you cf questions too. > i need to do a few more interviews and i am too general/easy. > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;192386516;25150098;k Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:258437 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
