To your original question i used to ask this in interviews for candidates: Q. Is your resume full of sh**@t or is it accurate?" <-- Ice breaker... (now that i have your full attention).
Q. Tonight when you go home, what is it you are going to do?" <- Relevance: Why do you work? Q. Most devs have that idea of a product that would be in the one day when i get time, i'm gonna write...... what was that project/product and what's stopped you from writing it" <- Relevance: Can you finish what you start. Q. Says here you know .NET? cool, i'll take your word for it and should you be lying in 3 months we'll have a different discussion :) but tell me this, if i asked you to learn PHP/JAVA/RUBY etc tomorrow, how fast do you think you could get up to speed?" <- Relevance: Are you a programmer or a tab-dot-ship developer? and can you estimate? Q, Are you a leader or follower" <- Relevance: pretty straight forward question.. Q. If you were hired tomorrow, what would you do in the first day? then tell me what you hope to achieve within the first week?" <- Relevance: What do you expect from me in order to get you up and running and gimme some clues as to what your expectations are. Q: We are paying $xyz per year / hour. Thats all we can afford right now..but how much do you think your really worth, i mean...really..and explain to me why?" <- Relevance: Can you tell truth to power and i'm curious to see how you evaluate yourself as a professional - lastly, i'd like to know how much i don't have to pay you aswell :D hehehe. Q. Last question, are you happy with your chosen profession still? <- Relevance: Goes towards interest levels but its a good finish up question as it leaves the candidate thinking about their skills/profession etc and should they have failed this interview (in their minds) it will at least make them rethink their approach for the next interview :D I personally think that if you put "wrote a book on xyz technology" in your resume and you come to a job with that, in 3 months you have a chance to call b.s.. testing people on the first interview really isn't going to yield much in the way of specifics..as most good job hunters know how to game that and it really doesn't get to the heart of it all "does this person have a brain and will they fit within our team culture..." --- Regards, Scott Barnes http://www.riagenic.com On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 10:43 AM, Noon Silk <noonsli...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, > > Anyone have any thoughts/lists on a update-to-date set of questions > to ask people (senior .net). I'm preparing a list now (trying to find > my old one from a few years ago), just wondering if anyone has any > new/interesting questions that they are asking. > > -- > Noon Silk > > http://dnoondt.wordpress.com/ (Noon Silk) | http://www.mirios.com.au:8081 > > > "Every morning when I wake up, I experience an exquisite joy — the joy > of being this signature." >
