MB Software Solutions General Account wrote: > We're hiring a new QA (quality assurance..."the grand tester"). We want > to gauge not only a personality fit but of course the analytical > thinking skills of the candidate. How would you best assess that if you > were responsible for interviewing this person?
Lots of good ideas in the thread... 1. To reiterate, have them show you what they can do. Give them some work and have them perform it. I've repeated the old "don't you want to see me kick some footballs" story often enough. <s> 2. The _first_ thing out of your mouth when you talk to them should be to describe the job: "Your job is to break our software and document how you did it so we can fix it. We _know_ it works perfectly so that's why we're not testing it." "You have to be clever. You have to be devious. You have to be rigorous. You have to be able to work nice with others even though you're making their lives miserable. If we send crappy software out the door, it's YOUR FAULT. (Well, sort of - mgt might have a voice in that too...)..." Then... near the end of whatever meetings/interviews you have, ask them to sum up the job in one or two sentences. If they don't repeat "My job is to break the software and tell you guys how I did it.", they weren't paying attention. This is such a choice (unusual) description of a job; if they don't glom onto immediately, pass 'em by. Whil _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
