Subj : Re: Are you a programmer? These interview tips may help
To   : poindexter FORTRAN
From : MRO
Date : Fri Nov 01 2019 18:06:22

  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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