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Arggggh! Companies with the hardest job interviews
CNBC.com ^ | Published: Friday, 9 Aug 2013 | 7:22 AM ET

Posted on 08/09/2013 10:37:25 AM PDT by Perdogg

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To: Billthedrill

Who said I have friends?


61 posted on 08/09/2013 2:33:55 PM PDT by Delta Dawn (Fluent in two languages: English and cursive.)
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To: IronJack
This question says more about the interviewer than it does about the interviewee.

I'd say that kind of depends. If the candidate were really good at thinking on his feet, I'd imagine you might get some really interesting/funny/or even possibly insightful answers.

62 posted on 08/09/2013 5:06:49 PM PDT by zeugma (Be a truechimer, not a falseticker!)
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To: Billthedrill

For me that would be, “Trustee, Model Prisoner, 5 Years, Sing-Sing Correctional Facility, Ossining, NY.”

Only one man on earth puts that in his resume, and that’s me!


63 posted on 08/09/2013 5:16:23 PM PDT by Ted Grant
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To: bgill

Ding, ding, ding...


64 posted on 08/09/2013 5:18:39 PM PDT by Kickass Conservative (They can follow the Communist, I'll follow the Constitution...)
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To: IronJack

More on the holes. This afternoon while taking a walk I saw more than a dozen manhole covers that were rectangular and square. What was under them, I don’t know, but they were large enough for a man to fit through the holes.

So, the answers that manhole covers must be round so that they won’t fall in the round holes and kill the workers in them, are patently false, because the assumption of the question is false. The question should then be: why are some manholes square and rectangular?


65 posted on 08/09/2013 5:22:07 PM PDT by Revolting cat! (Bad things are wrong! Ice cream is delicious!)
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To: Revolting cat!
My response to the question would simply have been "They're not." The question shows a lack of imagination, creativity, and originality. It is the interviewer's attempt to force the interviewee to be insightful, while he himself is anything but. Bear in mind that any interview works two ways: I'm interviewing you as much as you're interviewing me.

I'd ask the classic: "What is the sound of one hand clapping?" Anyone who took one hand and slapped the fingers to the palm would immediately be disqualified as an idiot who doesn't understand the subtleties implicit in the question.

66 posted on 08/09/2013 5:46:39 PM PDT by IronJack (=)
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To: tanknetter
Didnt Chelsea Clinton end up with a sweet gig at McKinsey right out of college? I wonder whether she was put through the standard interview process?

McKinsey's process? Or her (ostensible) daddy's?

67 posted on 08/10/2013 2:41:55 AM PDT by cynwoody
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To: IronJack

The sound of one hand clapping?

Why, that would be an applau.


68 posted on 08/10/2013 2:56:32 AM PDT by glock rocks (No comment.)
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To: Talisker

Awesome. I’m going to lunch now.


69 posted on 08/12/2013 4:50:13 AM PDT by Mathews (Ecclesiastes 10:2 (NIV), Luke 22:36 (NIV))
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