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| Gaya3 |
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I do remember , one of the interview Que (happened quite long back )
Whats the difference between EAI and ERP?
The interviewer was an ERP Specialist that time. I excused and left the place....
What else i can do..?
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| bruce2359 |
| Posted: Wed Sep 16, 2009 5:51 am Post subject: |
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A good interviewer knows when to speak, and when to listen.
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| bruce2359 |
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When I was job-seeking, my least favorite interviewer would ask me a question, then turn his chair to face out the window to watch traffic on the highway nearby.
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| Vitor |
| Posted: Wed Sep 16, 2009 6:03 am Post subject: |
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| bruce2359 wrote: |
| When I was job-seeking, my least favorite interviewer would ask me a question, then turn his chair to face out the window to watch traffic on the highway nearby. |
I'd have asked if he car spotted because he found train spotting too intelectually & socially challenging.
On the understanding I wouldn't want a job with him at that point.
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| sumit |
| Posted: Wed Sep 16, 2009 6:32 am Post subject: |
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| bruce2359 wrote: |
| When I was job-seeking, my least favorite interviewer would ask me a question, then turn his chair to face out the window to watch traffic on the highway nearby. |
That sometimes considered as creating psychological pressure on the interviewee. These are certain activites that an interviewer does to check how you are handling the situation when you are actually made to feel completely ignored. Other such instaces could be..
*start singing something
*playing with paper weight
*rubbing eyes as if he is about to sleep.
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| WMBDEV1 |
| Posted: Wed Sep 16, 2009 6:59 am Post subject: |
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| sumit wrote: |
Other such instaces could be..
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Replying to threads on your favourite bulletin board. I'm interviewing right now 
Any minute now i'm gonna ask questions on electrical engineering and then chuck Jeffs other question in.
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| bruce2359 |
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| That sometimes considered as creating psychological pressure ... |
Ooooooh, psychological pressure. Being an business and IT professional (suit and tie) with decades of experience, I thought the guy was just a jerk.
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| Vitor |
| Posted: Wed Sep 16, 2009 7:30 am Post subject: |
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| bruce2359 wrote: |
| I thought the guy was just a jerk. |
If I'd gone to the trouble of putting a suit on (especially my good interview suit) I might have reached that conclusion too.
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| shashivarungupta |
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Psychological pressure is for the people who are either new to the industry or to the field where real time issues/scenarios are more then to give a time to fix them using some alternate logic/option to avoid them in the future.
I remember one interview with a small company where the group of persons asked me questions one by one and one interviewer started asking questions about my trip to U.S. and the Freeways that I crossed from Detroit to Chicago. And not only this I was being asked about the way that I used to had my meals while traveling long distances.
Actually that person was not aware about the MQ/MB at all and was passing time while waiting for other person to hand the session over. It took 1.53 hours of mine that day. Though I cleared it but didn't go for it.
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| gbaddeley |
| Posted: Wed Sep 16, 2009 6:45 pm Post subject: |
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| I always like to ask a question that I expect the interviewee does not know the answer to. |
Yes, that gives an idea of how they cope with unfamiliar situations, their self confidence, worldly knowledge, social skills, business acumen, honesty.
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| exerk |
| Posted: Wed Sep 16, 2009 10:24 pm Post subject: |
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| I always like to ask a question that I expect the interviewee does not know the answer to. |
Yes, that gives an idea of how they cope with unfamiliar situations, their self confidence, worldly knowledge, social skills, business acumen, honesty. |
As one of your countrymen would say...I'm buggered! Too much time spent locked in a dungeon.
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| sumit |
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| shashivarungupta wrote: |
| Psychological pressure is for the people who are either new to the industry or to the field where real time issues/scenarios are more then to give a time to fix them using some alternate logic/option to avoid them in the future. |
I humbly disagree.. The interviewee might be having years of experience and is just the best... but an interviewer has a little time to judge you. How he is judging you that depends on the requirement, conditions, the way he wants his team to be, etc, etc.
Well.. I also agree that there are instances when you were actually asked some questions which are just not relevent and reason could be many.. may be he is testing you on some other aspects.. may be he doesn't know anything.. or may be he hates you..!! (strange, but true)
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| bruce2359 |
| Posted: Thu Sep 17, 2009 7:36 am Post subject: |
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Pressure in an interview does not necessarily relate to pressure in job performance (like during an outage). This is a common mistake interviewers make when needlessly tormenting interviewees.
Quite a while ago I interviewed for a job with a giant, and well-known software company. The total interview lasted over 6 hours. The pressure came mostly from my bladder, as interviewers were swapped out every hour or so, with no time offereed for potty break or lunch.
It didn't take me all that long to figure out that, if hired, the organization would treat me even worse than it had during the interview.
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| Vitor |
| Posted: Thu Sep 17, 2009 7:41 am Post subject: |
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| exerk wrote: |
| gbaddeley wrote: |
| mqjeff wrote: |
| I always like to ask a question that I expect the interviewee does not know the answer to. |
Yes, that gives an idea of how they cope with unfamiliar situations, their self confidence, worldly knowledge, social skills, business acumen, honesty. |
As one of your countrymen would say...I'm buggered! Too much time spent locked in a dungeon. |
If you've been buggered we need to check the locks on the outside doors! 
I prefer the term "enclosed workspace" myself.
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| bruce2359 |
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| I prefer the term "enclosed workspace" myself. |
Ah, a euphemism. Like outplaced instead of fired. Or, donation instead of theft (IBMs reference to mainframe WLM). Or, reorganization instead of lemmings running off the edge of a cliff.
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