Re: Conducting interviews

[DrFranken <midrange@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I love these questions.  They certainly aren't going to do ALL of that 
but the better not do NONE of that. It really is telling if they invest 
in themselves or not. If they do not why would you invest in them??


        - Larry "DrFranken" Bolhuis

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On 8/26/2016 9:02 AM, Glenn Gundermann wrote:
> Hi Michael,
>
> I haven't read anyone else's replies so this may be repetitive.
>
> I feel it is important for a developer to keep current.  I ask them:
> - What user group(s) they belong to.
> - What speakers/topics they have attended to in the last year.
> - Can they list all the great conferences, e.g. COMMON, IBM conferences,
> RPG DB2 Summit, TUG, etc.
> - When and what was the last conference they attended.
> - What user forums do they follow/participate in.
> - What technical subscriptions do they read.
> - Can they name some of the popular technical authors.
> - What technical authors do they like to follow.
> - What courses have they taken.
>
> Once I get the feel of this, I can go into the technical evaluation: ILE,
> DB2, SQL, RPG. etc.  I've had interviewees tell me they have learned
> something by the time they leave the interview.
>
>
>
> Yours truly,
>
> Glenn Gundermann
> Email: glenn.gundermann@xxxxxxxxx
> Cell: (416) 317-3144
>
>
> On 26 August 2016 at 06:54, Michael Schutte <mschutte369@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > I'm a bit nervous. Today was supposed to be me attending an interview not
> > leading it.
> >
> > But here we are.  Time for me to break out of my shell.
> >
> > Does anyone have any tips or things I should be asking?  We are
> > interviewing a consultant for RPGLE position.
> >
> > Would it be appropriate to ask them to find a bug in a 20 line procedure?
> >
> > We haven't had much success lately with people that can debug issues. This
> > to me is a biggie.  This particular issue I expect someone to be able to
> > find just looking at the code. I discovered it yesterday going to have
> > fixed today.  I just thought this would give me some insight on the person
> > problem solving ability.
> >
> >
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