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Originally Posted by jcommin (Post 10467862)

These are questions I would not ask....

"Give me 2 numbers that add up to 4?" When I get the answer, ex: 2 plus 2, I respond how about 3 plus 1 or 8 minus 4.

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10 + 10

Any id10t knows that, and if you don't...you can't "manage" me either :).

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Originally Posted by KC911 (Post 10468460)

10 + 10

Any id10t knows that, and if you don't...you can't "manage" me either :).

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Originally Posted by sammyg2 (Post 10468490)

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You ain't good enough to take my job away from me....so you'll just have to settle for putting up with my sorry azz as I do what I do :)

Have you ever seen one of those internet quizzes where you have to guess the automotive part - usually about 60 items? I usually ace those quizzes and I noticed that people I work with (even though they work in the office) If they can't answer at lease some of the questions, they are also most likely to know nothing about our plant - which is highly mechanical.

My point: if I were to follow your interview method, I would get a box of things (say 10 items) and see if the candidate can guess what they are. Even if they are wrong, you might be able to see if they know something about mechanical issues.

I remember my son telling me about his interview for his job. Seems they do it by commitee so there was a panel of 'em asking the questions.
The last one asked was about what you take into consideration when designing a part. They listed 4-5 things, I forget how many exactly, and said what is the last one. He thought about it for 30 seconds and answered correctly. They then ended the interview and told him he'd fit in just fine there. They also told him they'd interviewed a number of guys, from schools a lot more prestigeous than the one he attended, that sat there for 30 minutes and still couldn't answer the question. Needless to say, he's moved up in the ranks fairly quickly.

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Originally Posted by stealthn (Post 10467686)

Yes a little strange but a friend of mine setup a bunch of gear for network candidates and said build me a network with these parameters for a mid level network specialist role, this was his interview...to my shock no one could do it, although all of them had excellent resumes.
I asked for his parameters and new I could have done it easy, so I thought it was an excellent “don’t tell me what you can do, show me” moment.

I say go for it

I've interviewed LOTS of network guys over the years. Half of the time their resumes look like the glossary or index of a Cisco book, and most of the time they have NO CLUE.

I hate it when I start asking about stuff they did and I start getting "we did this, and we did that." Most of the time, there's an engineer somewhere that created configs and they were the grunt that pasted them in.

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Originally Posted by svandamme (Post 10467826)

Because a round manhole cover cannot fall into the manhole.
a square, or oval manhole cover could and obviously eventually would
An even triangle could work fine, but more manufacturing cost + more hassle since it needs aligning to manhole.. a round manhole cover is always aligned with the round manhole...

Don't forget a circle has the minimal area (material) to cover a similar space, so material savings.

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Originally Posted by jcommin (Post 10467862)

"Give me 2 numbers that add up to 4?" When I get the answer, ex: 2 plus 2, I respond how about 3 plus 1 or 8 minus 4.

I'm guessing you mean 8 + -4? ;)

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Originally Posted by flipper35 (Post 10467919)

I am in IT and for a while it was trendy to ask for your Facebook password. Had that question ever been asked of me I would have got up and walked out of the interview. That said, I have thought of asking that in an interview and if the candidate was willing to give it up, the interview would be over and if they said "no" then we could continue. The problem is, if they were like me I would have to catch the good ones as they tried to walk out.

NFW. I've never been asked. I read about that sort of thing being asked, but there's no way in hell that anyone would be getting my social media pw, and I don't have anything to hide.

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Originally Posted by 908/930 (Post 10468235)

At a interview for a Mechanical designer position years ago I was asked to write down the procedure for changing a car tire, I got the position. They found that lots of people including Mec engineers didn't have a clew, and they believed that if you can't change a tire you should not be designing machinery.

A ball of yarn? Or the lower corner of a square sail?

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Originally Posted by LakeCleElum (Post 10467684)

High school school Psychology class: Had a female student that thought see knew everything in the world.

Teacher took me aside and asked if if I could bring something mechanical she would have to put together. I said: I have a motorcycle carb all apart. He said: Perfect, bring it tomorrow.......

Can still hear the class howling with laughter at her.............She didn't have a clue........

That’s a terrible teacher! A teacher should have to prove he’s right. Not like that.

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Originally Posted by unclebilly (Post 10467657)

Alternatively, I am considering bringing a new and clean tube of grease and grease gun and asking the applicant how they would install it, and how the grease gun works. Obviously, I wouldn’t let them get grease all over the place.

What are your thoughts? What weird questions have you been asked at interviews before.

I was thinking of hiring a mechanic and asking him to calculate the area under the curve of

f(x)= 1/x between 1 and 0

Hired a few electricians for a electrical company I worked for in the 90's.
The secretary would give them applications, I'd check them out then call one in for a interview.

I'd ask them to bring in there hand tools and tell them I might have a quick job for them that day. When they came in we would talk then I'd ask them to grab there tool belt and look at there tools.

If you would see several cavities (electrical shorts) on the screwdrivers or pliers then you could tell right away this guy is dangerous. Lol

Yes, manhole covers are indeed round because it's the only shape that won't fall in the hole. However, should you live in a City that is run by absolute idiots, a manhole cover just might kill your children:

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