Re: Re: Are you a programmer? These interview tips may help
By: poindexter FORTRAN to Digital Man on Fri Nov 01 2019 06:43 am
> I'm in IT management and went through a period of job-seeking recently. In
> my field, old-school is back. "Behavioral Interviews" were the norm.
> On at least 3 occasions I'd be in a room with a panel. They'd have pre-
> written self-evaluative questions provided to them that, if vague, the panel
> wasn't really able to answer (because they didn't write them).
sounds like the newlywood game.
> The other side of the coin was companies who googled "Technical questions
> for IT Managers" and asked the same handful of questions. Describe what
> happens when you enter a URL into a browser, asking what port DNS uses, then
> whether it uses TCP or UDP (the answer: both - UDP for normal queries, TCP
> for larger transactions like zone transfers)
> I usually knew those places weren't interested. If you have a team of 20
> people and you're more concerned about technical minutae than my management
sounds like they have no clue.
i'd have to say the hardest interview was when i had a gauntlet of interviews
for acmi, company that made various medical devices. i went through about 4
people that asked hard questions for about 25 mins and at the end i interviewed
with them all at once.
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