With 2am responsibilities you must be paying top $ Keith Smith ----- Original Message ----- From: David A. Sinck Sent: Thursday, March 22, 2001 10:55:16 AM To: Subject: RE: Advice > > > \_ SMTP quoth Gary Nichols on 3/21/2001 15:30 as having spake thusly: > \_ > \_ 2) Second interview with candidate is the technical. I warn them ahead of > \_ time that I'm bringing them in for a grilling session. Sometimes I'll bring > \_ in other engineers that the candidate will be working with and let them ask > \_ questions. These questions are more theory and understanding, not anal > \_ things like "Which switch to you use with fsck to do this blah blah". > > OTOH, when I grill people that claim to be "good" in perl, I expect > them to know what -T is, why it's good, and how to compensate. Not > knowing the answer won't disqualify them, but it helps to round out > the picture. > > I also have some special winner questions that I like to ask. Either > they can 1) answer them or 2) I get to see them cope under pressure. > Both are illustrative. I've had one (1) person answer my special > happy question for Perl...he was offered that same day. Everyone > else got to perform under pressure. > > I'm all for a low stress working place, but when the heat is on, it's > 2AM, and you are responsible for the database being down, can you ride > or are you getting off the coach? So far, the candidates that have > come on board at various companies after fielding the winner have > proved their mettle. > > \_ Those questions are worthless... anyone can use 'man' to look that > \_ up in a pinch. I will add though that people that can name [fsck > \_ opts] off the top of their head need to see my point#11 in my > \_ previous email. > > No, it's when they know all the options to find.... :-) > > David > > ________________________________________________ > See http://PLUG.phoenix.az.us/navigator-mail.shtml if your mail doesn't post to the list quickly and you use Netscape to write mail. > > Plug-discuss mailing list - Plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss