I have interviewed people for a CF developer position in the past. If they have a brain freeze one question/example but get the others, it is not a big deal to me. We all have brain freezes.
I like to ask a follow up though.. "Sounds like you do not know. So how would you go about figuring it out or finding the information?"... Things like newsgroups, asking other developers and even searching Google are good responses. If you do not know something, at least know how to find out the answer. I would say 50% of candidates do not even go that far and say "I do not know..." -----Original Message----- From: Michael Dinowitz [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, November 18, 2010 12:14 AM To: cf-community Subject: How to screw up an interview I had a job interview today and boy did I screw it up. Everything was going good. We talked some DB design and I hit all the points that they wanted. Then they asked me for a simple aggregate query and my mind froze. It was a simple aggregate statement and I just couldn't write it. And then the interview went on for about 1.5 hours and I start getting nervous with interviews that long. I don't know what else to say, what else to ask, and it just goes south from there. I'm still hoping for the position but... :( ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:331847 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
