From: Ian Stong (istong@stong.org)
Date: Fri Apr 02 2004 - 20:30:47 GMT-3
Note sure if you are suggesting it was a good thing or a bad thing that
he did that. I think it sounds like a great idea in that it would give
you insight into many aspects of the person. If they had all sorts of
technical skills on their resume but couldn't answer questions about
them then they may be prone to exaggeration, lying, etc. Also if you
are looking for a technical person it's also a good way to weed out
those who are not. I've found in interviewing people that often a
resume can look great with lots of awesome looking jobs and skills but
they turn out to have done little and know even less :)
Ian
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-----Original Message-----
From: nobody@groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody@groupstudy.com] On Behalf Of
Jan K
Sent: Friday, April 02, 2004 4:21 PM
To: ccielab@groupstudy.com
Subject: Re: Bad Interview Experience
One interviewer I knew intentionally didn't read anything past the
skills
portion on the resume lest he become too impressed by the subject's
experience (or underwhelmed).
During the interview he would basically grill you on whatever you dared
to
put down in your skills section, looking for weak spots and fibs. If you
passed, the interview process proceeded. If you failed, goodbye. It was
just
a very efficient and meritocratic way of narrowing down the candidates.
This person, btw, had 10+ years of experience, starting out as a cable
installer, and was a vp at the time working for a major bank/brokerage
(csfb). He didn't have a single certification and found people who had
the
audacity to call themselves experts (the e in ccie) totally unimpressive
and
somewhat pretentious after one of them couldn't tell him what the
default
enable password for Catalyst 6500's was.
- Jan
----- Original Message -----
From: "Chris Larson" <clarson52@comcast.net>
> My VistaPrint Electronic Business CardI just thought I would throw out
an
> experience I had yesterday. It was very unnerving and I wonder if
others
have
> had similiar experiences. I have been in networking for better then 12
years
> but only got CCIE certified in the last year. I have had lots of
interviews
> throughout my carreer, most have had a technical aspect but I never
felt
> uncomfortable in any of them until yesterday.
>
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