Interview question

[cowboyjwc]

A guy rolls out a set of plans at an interview and asks me what circuit feeds a mill and where the panel is located (they used a grid system to label their panels). I looked at it and gave him his answer in about 10 seconds. It took the plant engineer a minute or longer to verify it.

I hate when the guy asking the question doesn't know the answer.

The other bad one is that everyone wants to show how smart they are during the interview. I gave one guy the scenario "the lights are off in an office, give me the steps that you would use to trouble shoot the problem." I would open the fixture and take my tester and make sure that I had the proper voltage feeding the ballast. Wouldn't be easier to just check and make sure the switch is on first?

 

[ceknight]

Yesterday's Dilbert strip seems appropriate for this thread:

http://dilbert.com/strip/2017-04-24

 

[ggunn]

What's conduit.........................

FOO-bah, FOO-bah, FOO-bah...

 

[gadfly56]

FOO-bah, FOO-bah, FOO-bah...

DING!

 

[just the cowboy]

HR did the interview

HR did the interview

One time I went for a interview and the first person was the head of HR. After about 10 minutes she tried one of the HR tricks,
" Everything has been very positive tell me something negative about yourself".
I thought and said "I had a tardiness problem till I went on third shift due to traffic".
She said tell me something else.
I said " I hate management".
Her jaw dropped and she said "I am hiring you for management".
I said"" You are hiring me to keep the plant safe and running, I don’t' play the management games. I will not lift my right foot when you tell be to, then lift my left when you say to. I will fall on my a$$.""

I got the job.

 

[truck41trouble]

Perhaps a jackass

Lmao


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[Johnnybob]

In my experience, they're 90°, Not Quite 90° and Oh Crap, Beyond 90°.

For me it would be 90, 30 and 22 1/2 degrees.

 

[Coppersmith]

Yesterday's Dilbert strip seems appropriate for this thread:

I once worked in a dysfunctional office similar to Dilbert's. So similar in fact, that as each dysfunction occurred, and after I got over the initial shock and awe of how stupid management was, I would thumb through my daily Dilbert cartoon calendar, find a cartoon depicting the exact situation, enlarge it on the copier, and when no one was looking, post it where management would see it. I can't say that the feedback changed their minds much, but it allowed me to cope with the idiocy. (And no, I never got caught.)