Posted on 02/09/2022 1:39:43 PM PST by nickcarraway
If you had taken the job, pretty soon, you would be running that company. Nothing wrong with that.
My bosses, who were generally very good and knew the legacy systems very well (so I usually deferred) once came up with a solution to a looming problem.
They pretty much spent 2 days coming up with a solution covering at least 2 whiteboards in a conference room.
They asked me to review their work. After 30-45 minutes I suggested 10-15 lines of code that would do the same thing. Easily.
Nope... Made me implement their solution. Probably took me the better part of two days and I could have had it all done in very little time.
That was 40 years ago.
I used to work for a well-known software company in Silicon Valley. An employee of said company did exactly that while complaining (justifiably, I might add) about the fact that the company served only cheese and crackers at the company Christmas party. She was responding to an internal discussion forum and accidentally sent the message to everyone in the company.
"Wanna get away?"
Short term job. will only last until she needs something besides looks and youth.
It’ll be good while it lasts for someone though. Maybe.
Remember, if they ask you what your greatest weakness is,
you answer “chocolate”.
That is classic.
I recall reading that solution somewhere...
Anyone who would use a sort to reverse an array ... [sigh].
Did they improve the Christmas spread the next year?
Did anyone respond?
Tell them to array their damn numbers in the correct order in the first place and walk out.
Then come in on Monday morning like you have the job.
I just say, “Well, that is a hard question. I’m good at so many things. Bye.”
Thank goodness I don’t have to work anymore. I started in the days when HR just took care of your paperwork. Actual managers in the working group did the interviews and selection. 40 years ago in the oilfield the HR department for the entire division that covered most of ten states was three people. One of them was the secretary and handed out office supplies for the whole 11 story HQ building. You could well and truly get another pencil if you brought in the used stub. The lady that ran central files could tell you in an instant where every well file was and would come looking for us if one was late. I still remember the names of both those ladies nearly 50 years later.
One company that starts with T and ends with O would not even let people plug a radio into the wall outlet, batteries only. That made the troops happy because they got to listen to the radio when a progressive move forward was taken. Another company inspected pipe with a hammer. If it didn’t go through when you hit it, the pipe was good to run.
Last real interview I had I finished, thanked them for their time and told them I was not interested. Never went without work a single day that I wanted it in nearly 50 years even through all the ups and downs.
Where do you see yourself in five years?
Five years? Hell, I’m already parked in the “Employee of the Month” spot!
What is your weakest attribute?
I hold grudges. Nice family photo, by the way.
Early ‘90s, everyone just got email....guy comes to me, “how do I take back an email I sent?”.
When I told him “sorry, you don’t”...he turned a few shades whiter. I never learned the details but noticed he wasn’t around any longer.
I wouldn’t be able to hold it against her, either. She’s absolutely correct. I would just delete that answer and go forward but she’s probably going to withdraw anyway.
They said FORTRAN, it's what they know. I wrote it out on a legal pad. I got an offer from them, but I didn't accept it.
-PJ
It’s you’re not your
They asked me to, in Javascript, reverse an array of 100 numbers.
.....
They responded, “Sorting. Bubblesort, Quicksort, all sorts of stuff like that.”
I don't remember if I went to the next party. This was 30 years ago.
“When I told him “sorry, you don’t”...he turned a few shades whiter. I never learned the details but noticed he wasn’t around any longer.”
I worked for a tech company, MT based but we were world-wide, in the late 90’s.
One of the VP’s sent an email to our CEO mentioning that he could get a friend at the WSJ to place a story — not 100% reality based, mind you — in the paper to cast a foul light upon a competitor to help ‘the company’ on a RFP. Unfortunately he sent it to ‘ALL.’
45 seconds later the email was retrieved - MS Office MailServer.
The email disappeared faster than Keyser Söze... (I did print a copy for, uh, ya know...)
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