What if they're a Senators or Canucks fan? >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 > > > >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? > > > >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?" > > > >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. >> >> >>
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