In <45fcfbbb8bc8eb4a9dfedc6fa2cc7fdf0b2...@sdkmbx03.emea.sas.com>, on
11/30/2011
at 08:26 AM, Lindy Mayfield <lindy.mayfi...@sas.com> said:
>One "test question" back some years ago with I was working in
>Heidelberg was to ask the interviewee what would they do if they
>encountered some network problems.
That's a perfect example of a bad question. The answer depends very
much on context.
>But the answer they were looking for about the network was the ping
>utility.
What if it's not an IP network?
Being the kind, gentle soul that I am, I would probably ask open book
questions. ;-)
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ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html>
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