Perhaps this article by Andy Lester might be of service in this discussion…?
http://blog.smartbear.com/software-quality/bid/280171/Bad-Tech-Job-Interview-Questions-and-How-To-Answer-Them Personally my favorite thing to ask is, "What are you most proud of?" Some people give you a technical answer ("I made that code run 30% faster") and others give you a people answer ("I made that team _work_!") and others a very personal one ("My faith in God"). All of them tell you something about what matters to the person. On May 7, 2013, at 8:16 AM, Corey Quinn <co...@sequestered.net> wrote: > > On May 7, 2013, at 8:04 AM, Dean Wilson <dwil...@unixdaemon.net> wrote: > >> On Tue, May 07, 2013 at 10:52:51AM -0400, Matt Simmons wrote: >>> I'd rather ask (and answer) open ended questions. Everyone always asks >>> "What is the TCP three way handshake", but my favourite question is, "Why is >>> it important to understand the three way handshake?" >> >> I've always used something like - >> >> "What happens when you type 'telnet example.com http" > > Huh. I've been doing this for a decade and somehow never tumbled on to telnet > performing /etc/service lookups. Makes perfect sense in retrospect, this is > just one of those things I somehow missed. Thanks-- and I'm glad I wasn't > interviewing with you at the time! > > Though to be fair, explicit port declaration works just fine and dandy! > > -- Corey _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.lopsa.org https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
