Montreal fans - immediate hire. Obviously very intelligent and hockey savy.
-----Original Message----- From: Dana [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, April 14, 2008 10:31 PM To: CF-Community Subject: Re: Interview Questions what if they root for Montreal, is my question. On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 6:30 PM, Larry Lyons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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. > >> > >> > >> > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| 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:258516 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
