While working at major health care provider in Dallas, we hired a VB programmer who had a very impressive resume. At that time we were not bombarding them with a lot of technial questions (mistake!). Well this guy ended up working with us for almost a year before we caught on to what he was doing.
He was tasked to write a very simple employee directory that interfaced with AD. Our department was on two different floors. The Internet/portal team was on 24 and my team, the Intranet team was on 25. So this guy would jump between floors and employees, making sure that no two adjoining employees were ever visited in the same week, and ask questions about how to approach a certain problem, and when we would show him what we would do, his answer was usually 'Yeah, that is what I was thinking to, but I wanted to see if there was a better way'. So anyway, a few of us got together for lunch and we started talking about so and so and why it was taking him so long to create such a simple app. Once we all discovered what he was doing, we made management aware of it and he was subsequently released. When we checked his computer, in addition to a beginning VB tutorial CD in the computer, there was all of our "code examples" in the app, which was barely halfway complete. The result of that debacle was that from then on, we would bombard the new candidates with a lot of technical questions from SQL Server to .NET and CF (untill they made the decision to go completely MS). -- Bruce ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| ColdFusion 8 - Build next generation apps today, with easy PDF and Ajax features - download now http://download.macromedia.com/pub/labs/coldfusion/cf8_beta_whatsnew_052907.pdf Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:239919 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
