Two comments.
I wonder what the acceptable or preferred answer is to the question
about different solutions to a problem by different team members? I had
a very similar question put to me at an interview I had for a job in the
provincial land titles office a number of years back.
Obviously it is a standard type question and although there is no
obvious "right" answer, they are obviously looking for how you respond
and I wonder what they would like to hear.
Second thing is in regard to the question about a joke. It is too bad
that you did not come up with something quick and good but it is very
good that you did not tell some off color, sexist, or racist joke etc.
Obviously, that would likely be the end of any hope you might have and
it is amazing how many people who are very intelligent might fall for
that. I do wish you had managed to come up with something however as it
shows an ability to think on your feet when you get an out of the blue
oddball question. It also shows something of your personality if you are
able to tell a nice clean joke. It shows other interests in life and
that you are not a total dweeb. It does not matter how smart and
dedicated you are if you have no personality or sense of humour.
Please don't take what I have said too personally. I'm just running off
a the mouth and probably would not have done any better at it than you
did. It is a difficult thing to answer when you are primed for business
and trying to be careful.
I know I have been trying to think of some good joke while typing this
and the best I have come up with so far is the old George Carlin
monologue where he talks about things like "hot water heaters" and
"flammable vs inflammable".
Randy
On 31/08/2012 4:56 PM, Craig wrote:
Well, I finished the interview, which lasted almost an hour.
It was difficult, with questions I did not expect and without questions I
did expect. Since it was to be a technical interview, I expected
technical questions. There weren't any of those. The questions I got
related to how I worked in a large team, which I have not really done.
One question was if I had been in a situation where different members of
the team came up with very different solutions to a problem and how we
worked out a single, final solution. Since the teams I have worked on
have been small, with one person doing the entire project or with each
team member working on different aspects of the project, I had to think
quite a lot about how to answer that question.
When it came my turn to ask questions, I went down the list I had
prepared. Some of them were difficult for the group in Hawaii to answer.
I didn't finish all my questions before it was time to close the
conversation.
The parting question I got was, "Do you know any good jokes?" I drew a
blank. After a short period of silence, the fellow said, "Well, I don't
know any either."
I'm not sure what to think of all of this.
The HR person said they would be moving on to the next step of candidate
selection and to keep my fingers crossed that they would be calling me.
I was rather drained after the interview. It's good to know that the Lord
is in charge.
Thank you for your prayers, concern and support.
Craig
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