RE: /400 skills test

[Eric Kempter <noerick.norcal@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thursday, May 18, 2000 7:05 AM, Schenck, Don [SMTP:Don.Schenck@WL.com] wrote:
| How about these questions:
| 
| "Tell me about the coolest application you've ever written."
| 
   A program that allowed interative chat on the AS/400.  What's the coolest 
application you've written Don?  Did you work on the 
System/3?  What was it like?

<remainder of interview, listen and smile as Don tells me about this 
experience.  Get the job as most memorable interview.>

| "Tell me about an application that you've written that is still in use
| today."
| 
| "What kind of music do you like?"
| 
| "Name a few movers and shakers in the computer programming field."
| 
| "An accountant needs some inventory numbers in a spreadsheet. What do you
| do?"
| 
| -- Don
| 
| 
| P.S. Go ahead someone ... answer the above questions. I'll grade you. Are
| you good enough for Schenck Technical Consulting??? <grin>
| 
| 
| 
| -----Original Message-----
| From: Donna Bryant [mailto:peeksoft@ix.netcom.com]
| Sent: May 18, 2000 8:59 AM
| To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
| Subject: RE: /400 skills test
| 
| 
| I believe you can and should test or conduct technical interviews.  In a
| previous life, I was the managing consultant for the AS400 group of a large
| consulting firm in Denver, and we conducted as series of 3 interviews:  the
| first was a personnel department screening, the second a technical
| interview, and the third a "management" interview.  In the technical
| interview, I didn't ask questions like "Can you do subfiles?"  Instead I
| might ask "How is the SFLNXTCHG" keyword used?" or "What is the consequence
| of SFLPAG = SFLSIZ?"
| As a consultant myself, I have had to interview for a great number of
| positions and most people will only ask some variation of "Did you do
| subfiles in your last job?"    I used a list of questions that I developed,
| many of which were from the tests that I gave to my students at Front Range
| Community College in the AS400 certificate program.  I may have a list of
| those questions somewhere, if someone wants to followup on this.
| 
| Donna Bryant, CCP
| Peek Software Services, Inc
| (912) 598-9245
| donnabryant@peeksoft.com
| www.peeksoft.com
| 
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