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Let the mutherfuker burn!
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Kevin S. Willis
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yellojktI will not do well with interview questions like these, in part because they piss me off. But then, I’ve never been a fan of brain teasers.
Although I’ve been through my share of irritating job interviews. I had one where the guys wanted me to write out a SQL query longhand to create a database an automatically populate it and some other stuff—and I would never be able to write out an extended SQL procedure and have it work the first time. They could have just asked me that to begin with, and saved us all a lot of time. Almost nothing I write works the first time—I write, debug, write some more, debug some more, look on the Internet to see how this or that works again, to refresh my memory.
Of course, I’ve been on the opposite end of that, interviewing people for a position who didn’t seem to read the job description. We were always explicit about what you should know about, yet people would show up not knowing any of things we had asked about. It just mystified me.
Of course, the qualified people often bailed when they found out what the position was offering. We were cheap. Of course, if any of those people are still working in the design field, they probably aren’t making any more than what we offered at the time. Graphic design has a definite undersupply of jobs and an oversupply of talent.
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Reminds me of a coworker who gave a half assed description of two tables & asked an interviewee to write a query. I think he stopped participating in interviews after that one.
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I've had a couple of interviews that were like that. One, I had to take a test, like I was in grade school. My wife told me she would have just walked out of that interview, and if I hadn't need a job at the time, I would have, too. But I try to be agreeable generally, including in interviews, but goofy physics questions when the job has nothing to do with it, or open-ended silliness . . . I guess it tells you something about the candidate, but I'm not sure what.
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I was given an actual ten question quiz once. I got the job. I find these brainteaser interviews ridiculous as they test for who had the geekiest reading library as a kid. Which may be what they are looking for.
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The most elegant equation I've ever seen is:e^(i*pi)=-1It's not nearly as pretty unless typeset right.
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Most elegant equation I've ever seen:2+2=4Thank you, Mr. Willis, I think this interview is over . . . I had an insufficiently geeky reading library. If they wanted to talk genre novels or comic books, however, I'd be all over it. I know which superhero I'd want to be, in terms of range of powers: Superman. Simply put, he has the greatest versatility, and a single ad very rare weakness, one that would never be exploited in a "real" world without super villains. If it had to be a non-absurd superhero, I think I'd like to be Iron Man, without with alcoholism. I like the super genius aspect. If I had to have the powers of one of the X-men, I think I'd want Kitty Pryde's walking-through-walls ability, and all that it implies (although, technically, she should have killed Juggernaut in X3 when she phased him solid into the floor, but let's not argue about that, now). Although I like Magnetos powers as well–extremely versatile.
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