Re:The Social Network Bust: What I learned from my job inter...
by jmspring on Sunday October 03, 2010 @11:06PM
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A nice piece, indeed. From experience both as an interviewer and an interviewee, my favorite set of questions to be hit with (or bring up) are:
1) What have you done and what did you like/dislike about it?
2) What sort of an environment do you thrive in?
3) What is an area that has most challenged you and how did you deal with it?
Specific technical chops are one thing, but anyone who is smart enough will be able to/driven to pick up the areas where they may be lacking. For me, the real test is in what adversities/challenges have they run into/how they articulate it/and how did they get themselves out of it.
Someone who can't tell a story and can't convey how they dug themselves out of a whole will not meet my initial threshold. Specific solutions to specific problems (or brain teasers) that are likely to come up in an interviews provide a very minor insight into who the person is and what they can/can't do. For me, how they convey their experiences will tell much more.
1) What have you done and what did you like/dislike about it? 2) What sort of an environment do you thrive in? 3) What is an area that has most challenged you and how did you deal with it?
Specific technical chops are one thing, but anyone who is smart enough will be able to/driven to pick up the areas where they may be lacking. For me, the real test is in what adversities/challenges have they run into/how they articulate it/and how did they get themselves out of it.
Someone who can't tell a story and can't convey how they dug themselves out of a whole will not meet my initial threshold. Specific solutions to specific problems (or brain teasers) that are likely to come up in an interviews provide a very minor insight into who the person is and what they can/can't do. For me, how they convey their experiences will tell much more.