"Linux is now not supported"

[Gene Kim-Eng]

There are very few questions I can think of that I would 
"immediately no hire" someone just for answering a 
certain way.  Generally, they involve committing acts of 
vandalism or violence against your manager.

I would also (hopefully) never ask a candidate a question as
vaguely worded as this one was (I don't believe in trick job
interview questions), but if I heard someone else ask it, as
opposed to "at the last minute management makes a major
change to the product specs," I would consider Jim Jones'
answer the optimum, followed by Joe Malin's (the one 
about conferencing with the key people, not the one asking
if the company had been taken over by Oracle).  An answer 
that suggests the candidate would respond to "Jump!" by 
asking "How high?" without first verifying who had said 
it and why would definitely be a negative, though not
necessarily a fatal one.  Maybe if the candidate's resume 
or cover letter had claimed the candidate could actually 
read minds...

Gene Kim-Eng



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Andrew Warren" <awarren at synaptics.com>

Come on, John... Lots of interviewers would ask that question 
WANTING to see whether the candidate tries to get more 
information before jumping in with a solution.  Here, for 
example, is a guy who'd immediately no-hire anyone who 
responded the way you suggested