interview questions
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- dkmb0
have you ever seen a man swallow his own head?
- b0ner0
ever got a KILLTACULAR?
- elee0
If I give you this job, will you sleep with me?
- Sickman0
i showed up to an interview once and was told that instead of being interviewed i was going to be paired with another applicant and we were to interview each other for 5 minutes alone in a room.
the other applicant had no relivent experiance at all.
no good refrences.
no post secondary eductaion.
nothing.i was over qualified if anything.
she got hired.
- "I'm going to ask yo gone last time. What did you do with the detonators, you meddling bitch."cannonball1978
- material-10
was she hot?
stupid question, of course she was!
- Sickman0
bingo.
she was a knock out.
- material-10
booya!
- Sickman0
i wanted to go back and demand they treat me like a hot blonde as well
- Rand0
I would totally fail that interview, salisae
- OSFA0
i wanted to go back and demand they treat me like a hot blonde as well
Sickman
(May 16 07, 15:17)HAHAHA!!!
- Peter0
Jox, you're saying your company never make mistakes?
I'd be very sceptic to any applicant claiming to be perfect.
Wouldn't throw folks out. People are heavy.
But I dig what you might be implicating: the reaction.
Instead of the "can't be helped" you'd want a "I'll cut of my pinky-finger for you if I do".
Hard to work a mouse without pinky.
- Peter0
ever seen a grown man naked?
BonSeff
(May 16 07, 14:29)There's a follow-up question to that
- ohhhhhsnap0
These days... the first (for me at least) is either from them or I,
"How do you like your coffee."
Though I usually don't bend over that fast.
- Putting together a list now for interviews coming upohhhhhsnap
- cannonball19780
Nowadays about 30 minutes of just talking about work seems to be sufficient. Unless I'm hiring a junior production designer, hearing how people talk about design is generally enough for me to gauge if they would be an asset.
Juvenile questions designed to see how someone would react is a waste of everyones time (including myself). When the tables are turned and I have to answer dumb questions like that, I get a sense that either A) the person has no hiring power and they are just in the room to see if they would work with me, B) the place doesn't take itself seriously at all, or C) the place takes itself TOO seriously and expects a floorshow.
Either way, if you can't gauge an designer's fit through a simple conversation, you have no business interviewing.
- ohhhhhsnap0
@cannonball1978, I didn't provide context:
My interviews these days are at cafe's (sometimes, but rarely, bars). Often I'm asked out for coffee to discuss a new potential gig or position (but those folks are located in other states, unfortunately) or when I'm networking (locally) I'll grab coffee with a manager or PR person of a company. It's often the first question asked at a cafe. Really, "What are you drinking."
My best interview was at this small pub in Williamsburg (BK), best interview ever. A CEO came up from North Hampton, MA to do business in NY, we had olives and wine, he got the bill.
I got the job but he wanted me to move to Mass., I was not ready for that kind of move. I wanted to freelance for the company from NYC. They wanted someone in-house, I turned them down.
Often the first question asked me: "Tell me about yourself, where've you been?"
I usually ask about the company's mission and make sure that I get a clear answer.
- ohhhhhsnap0
Had a founder ask me http://www.qbn.com/topics/681196… thought it was very clever.
- sarahfailin0
One really important interview question to me (having done a lot of interviews myself) is "Do you have any questions for us?"
This is your chance to show them that you've been learning and thinking about their organization. Asking a thoughtful question can really demonstrate your readiness to dive into their work. If you don't have any questions at all it says, "oh I haven't really looked into this or thought about this at all."
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- what is someone asks too many questions ?ohhhhhsnap
- BK0
Put em on the glass!
- whatthefunk0
Was recently asked "if we gave you $1MM to build a product, what would you build?" Was a great questions and I nailed it, got the offer, and then turned it down...
- shit!ohhhhhsnap
- good 1. i want to ask: would you/do you give your employees a day (free annually) to design whatever it is they want, and present the concept to the teamohhhhhsnap
- and present the concept to the team? would you?ohhhhhsnap
- I think that would work for smaller org but not a fortune 500, idkwhatthefunk
- what did you pitch?Gnash
- a combination of linkedin, glassdoor, freelancer's union, & job boards.whatthefunk
- I belive the work force needs more support from our community when evaluating full time jobs and $whatthefunk