If I don't know an answer, I generally include that I am part of cf-talk and other cf groups (as well as groups for other technologies), so if I don't know the answer, I let them know that I know where to look.
I really hate interviews where they seem like they are trying to trick you by asking questions about obscure crap...kinda like 90% of the online skills tests that seem like some guy went through CFWACK (or other books) and randomly picked questions to put in the test, even if they were questions that either only an admin would know or were for some function that is never ever used except in very specific situations. I have even run across folks asking questions about things that were depreciated in 4.5. Just ask me questions so I can show I know what I am talking about and quit the cloak and dagger crap. Yeah you are smart...so am I...lets move on... -----Original Message----- From: Jacob [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, November 18, 2010 11:17 AM To: cf-community Subject: RE: How to screw up an interview 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:331849 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
