RE: Strange Interview Practices?

Subject: RE: Strange Interview Practices?
From: "Earl Cooley" <shiva -at- io -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Fri, 2 Nov 2001 16:09:26 -0600

> [...] Believe it or
> not, a tech writer I helped to interview for another team won the
> interviewing programmer's favor by seriously answering the question "How
> would you deal with trying to get information from a programmer if they
> won't give it to you?" with "First, I'd bribe him with cookies,..."
>
> Shauna Iannone

That makes perfect sense: the candidate demonstrated a strong measure of
corporate culture compatibility. One culture check I use (from both sides
of the interview table) is to see how easy it is to make the other folks
laugh.

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e=sc^3 (shiva -at- io -dot- com) Earl Cooley III

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