RE: Meaningless interview questions (ANSWERS IN HERE, DON'T LOOK)

[Rajan.Srinivasan@xxxxxxxxxx]

  Endre,
                      Yes, I have been to twice simmillar to that( about  3
and half year before)  to  big consulting companies ( I dont want to
mention the name of the firm here, because I am not sure whether I can do )
, who the interviewer is a marketing person, who just say  helllo to me and
guided me to a  PC (!) which runs a software with  lots of questions and
answers to select  on .
                       The questions were realy more theoritical  on
syntax,  which  was very tough.  I could'nt pass, though I have at that
time almost 5+ years of  programming experiance with good expertise to
programming Logic and design.   I was so frustrated at that time about
that.

                       Then I attended with another  big distribution
company, they also guided me for the test , but this time to an AS/400
terminal. They gave  me the  real prgramming specificatiions, I  get
through it successfully. I started the work with
them with more confident and completed the project successfully on time.

With my experiance, I could'nt  able to say which is the best way to
conduct  the test .  I hope with more senior people on this list can
suggest the  best  way.

Regards
Raj







endre enyedy <e_enyedy@netside.net> on 02-04-99 07:19:35 PM

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Subject:  RE: Meaningless interview questions (ANSWERS IN HERE, DON'T
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At 03:48 PM 2/4/99 -0500, someone wrote:
.......snip.................snip..............snip.........
>You know the interviews you go to that are designed to show the
superiority
>of the techie conducting them and your own relative inferiority, but with
>no relevance whatsoever ...........................

Have you ever been  on to an interview  where the question were being
read from IBM's Programming Manuals? (RPG & COBOL)
It felt really surreal.
Oh well....
EndreE
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