On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 3:29 PM, Darrell Fuhriman <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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).
5) These people are horrible, I don't want this job anymore. This actually comes from personal experience after being interviewed for a few hours in a tiny hot room while exhausted from jetlag, someone slid such a question into the middle of their round. I flubbed it at first, taking option 4 before realizing I had been trapped. After the "Gotcha" moment and a good round of "laughs" I realized these were not the people I wanted to work with. Remember, the candidate is interviewing you, too. -n -- ------------------------------------------- nathan hruby <[email protected]> metaphysically wrinkle-free ------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ 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/
