27 May 2007

Interview Questions

In the last few months, I had been doing interviews. I had been asking most of the technical questions, but then I had few interesting questions: Explain to me how you would test/QA a salt shaker? Tell me why a manhole cover is round? How would you explain using Excel to your grandmother? Name an everyday object? (corkscrew), Now tell me 5 unconventional uses for it? My favorite: You are a prize fighter, everyone has a song they play on the way to the ring. What's your theme song?

I just ran across a site that a similar question, one I'd think you wouldn't want to ask in an interview: what song you’d like to have playing at your funeral?

Now, I spent a few days on the theme song: I want to conquer the world, Bad Religion. I think it will take me some time come up with this one...

Of course, the geeks at work thought all of the psychology questions were stupid. Well, they're geeks... they know systems, not people. I think I'll do a much better job of being an interviewee, now that I've been on the other side of the desk. I guess I'll find out soon, since they canned my boss the week before last... Why did I go back to the corporate world?

4 comments:

h3nryd00d said...

And you went back to the corporate world to hire me to work from home for 125K a year...

T said...

hmmm...i think you know that i want john b's entire "trance and bass" mix played at my death party but wow, having to narrow it down to one song? that IS hard.... i'll get back to you. oh yey, my organs are to be donated and whatever is left goes to science...to a med school/teaching hospital...cut me up, drain my fluids, pierce me, scan me, freeze me, clone me, implant my neurons in a machine or vice versa, i don't care - bring on the experimental procedures.

the corporate world doesn't have to suck, i'm kind of digging it (could have something to do with the idealistic approach my company has) but my point is you'll find a match... in north boulder i'm sure because god hates you.

i want to box,
t

handrail said...

apocalypse man by NIL8 would be a good one for the theme song.

at my funeral...something by the ramones or the clash.

handrail said...

oh, and about bloody time you put up your japan pics on flickr...ya fukr.