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Originally Posted by fanaudical View Post
Questions that I use during interviews for designers/engineers:

- Tell me about your best personal Magyver moment. How did you have to improvise a technical solution to get out of a tight jam with limited resources?

- What is the most complicated thing you've had to design without enough knowledge regarding how to do it? Was that project successful? Why or why not?

- What project are you most proud of and why?

- How do you deal with ambiguity in specifications and requirements? (When they inevitably ask "What do you mean by that?" the immediate reply is "What do you think I mean by that?")
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^^^these are great!!!"
Disagree. ..

All but the last one ask for recall and prioritizing of "best" or "most proud of"... I suppose that might be easy for those with one or two memorable Magyver moments or successful projects...

Anyway, the technical questions, like URY914's there, are very telling. --No embellishment risk, or risk that they are telling of some team member's "Magyver moment"
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