RE: /400 skills test

[Joel Fritz <JFritz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Schenck, Don [mailto:Don.Schenck@WL.com]
> Sent: Thursday, May 18, 2000 7:05 AM
> To: 'MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com'
> Subject: RE: /400 skills test
> 
> 
> How about these questions:
> 
> "Tell me about the coolest application you've ever written."
> 

Inventory auto replenishment system.  Estimates future need based on a
variety of factors that can be configured independently for both product and
individual store.  

> "Tell me about an application that you've written that is still in use
> today."
Same, and its companion, a re-order planning system.
> 

> "What kind of music do you like?"
Blues and jazz recorded before WWII.  Anything by J.S. Bach, Violent Femmes,
Bobby Bland, Hank Williams Sr, Ukulele Ike (Cliff Edwards, the voice of
Jiminy Cricket).
> 

> "Name a few movers and shakers in the computer programming field."
C'mon, I'm an AS/400 programmer.

> 
> "An accountant needs some inventory numbers in a spreadsheet. 
> What do you
> do?"
> 
Ask her/him what numbers.  Find out whether it's one shot or ongoing.  Work
out the simplest most robust way of doing it.  Options include using a file
editor and writing down the numbers, creating a download file, cut and
paste, odbc....

> -- 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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