On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 10:17 AM, Michael Dinowitz <mdino...@houseoffusion.com> wrote: > If I was interviewing someone, the skills I'd be looking for other than > language would be: > how fast can they find a viable solution through knowledge, research or > experimentation > how fast they can see that they are on the wrong path or are mistaken > about something > How well they adapt to new situations and learn new things >
On another interview we did a year or two ago, my coworker and I were both sitting in as part of a group interview. One person asked this guy, Support position if I recall, "How many gas stations are their in the US?" It is a fairly classic reasoning question. No one is expected to know the answer off the top of their head. Instead, you look for how they tackle the question when they don't know the answer. After the interview (which the guy did kind of meh on), we sat around and discussed how the interview went and also discussed that question. It was interesting to see how different people approach it. I had a logic and reasoning route, starting at a guess for how many stations are roughly in my area, extrapolating up to the population of my city, then extrapolating from there to the population of the US. I later also did a google search because I wanted to know more precisely and found a report from a petroleum industry association. My coworker went to Google maps, did a search for "gas station", then zoomed out to the level of the United States. He's really damn smart, btw. And our different ways of answering the question all came to within a pretty reasonable agreement with one another. Cool stuff. Ju ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:331857 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
