+1 for treating people like people sans trick questions --Craig Constantine, http://constantine.name
On May 9, 2013, at 6:29 PM, Darrell Fuhriman <[email protected]> wrote: > I too have gotten the ubiquitous "TCP handshake" question. Only once > have I gotten a curve ball from someone with it, the question was > "What is the UDP three way handshake?" He said he was wondering how > many people would catch the question's trick. Not directed at you, as such, but these kind of trick questions are really a terrible thing to do. It establishes a power dynamic that you don't want in the interview (or in the workplace), plus there are plenty of legitimate responses that don't require a person to tell the interviewer (already in a position of power) that they are wrong. Such as: 1) Maybe he/she meant TCP, I'll answer that. 2) This person doesn't know what they're talking about, I'll humor them with a vague answer 3) Oh, shit, I had no idea there was such a thing, I'll bluff. 4) Oh shit, I had no idea there was such a thing, I'm going to look stupid. etc. etc. 3 and 4 are particularly pernicious as they reinforce the dominant position of the interviewer, which again is not a good place to put an interviewee (or establish in a workplace). d. _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/ _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
