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14.01.04, 09:01
Nie tylko w polsce rzadzi idiotyzm ;-)))
You've stared into the eyes of evil itself and come out to tell the tale. Now
you understand how those before the Salem witch hunts and the Spanish
inquisition felt. We're talking about interviews that suck. Here are some of
the worst.
The impossible technical test
Draw a detailed network diagram showing how you might link the 5000 staff in
this building to email, printers, the internet, and file servers.
Name every method and parameter of the class
java.util.SoObscureNoOneEverUsesIt.
How would you recover from a major security breach at your site. Use no more
than 2 sentences for your explanation.
Write a short program that might be used to monitor a nuclear reactor, etc.
The sadistic interviewer
The interviewer is already angry at you. He was half-way through pulling the
wings off a fly when his secretary reminded him about this interview. He's
warming up to it now though. It's not often in modern life that one gets the
chance to humiliate an intelligent professional. As a matter of fact, you're
starting to look a bit like that fly.
The job requirements you were never told about
Didn't the agency tell you that this job requires fluent Japanese? I know
that this is a helpdesk job, but we also want someone who knows how to design
microprocessors. Do you have a helicopter pilot's licence? We often need our
network engineers to fly out to client sites.
The person who simply won't interview you
You say hello and then sit there - and sit there, and sit there. You try to
kick things off, but the interviewer simply won't ask you any questions. You
go into a bit of a spiel about your work experience, but he interrupts to ask
you if you saw last night's game. No matter what you do, this person simply
refuses to interview you. Fifteen minutes after walking out, you get a call
from the agency saying that you didn't have enough experience for the job.
Questions to make you squirm
What are these gaps on your resume?
What has been the most humiliating moment of your existence?
You've exaggerated slightly here haven't you?
Tell me about three times you really screwed up.
What are your ten greatest weaknesses? And I mean real weaknesses not made up
ones like "I'm a bit of a perfectionist."
You're coming across as a bit emotional, are you sure you're up to this job?
Ten hoops to jump through before winning the prize
First the agency interviews you, twice. Then you are interviewed by the
direct manager. Three days later, her manager wants to interview you. This is
followed by a technical test one week later. Then a psychological and
intelligence test. Then they get you back to HR can interview you. Then the
previous direct manager has been replaced, so now the new manager wants to
interview you. Then the business client wants to interview you etc.
The technical guy who wants to make you look stupid
This is usually someone the manager has bought along to gauge your technical
skills. This guy only bothers to learn stuff so he can bludgeon others with
his encyclopedic knowledge of the obscure. He won't let you leave the room
until he's made you look like a lying idiot who knows nothing about your
claimed area of expertise.
