I gave my first job interview today...

[Pekka]

rah, right, and I thank you for prepping me last time , because that's exactly what they asked me. I said the "sometimes if I don't understand something, I'll keep trying to understand it all by myself instead of asking for help". Something like that.. in all honesty, my weakness would be "If I'm not motivated, I don't try as hard as I could". Another weakness would be, "I get along with everyone well, but I can't say the things I really think inside my head most of the time, because it would make everyone extremely uncomfortable. Also, I like the uncomfortable. Say, if I farted, I wouldn't make an excuse, say I'm sorry or laugh about it to break the ice. I'd be aroused by everyone elses feeling of being uncomfortable."

[aneeshm]

Originally posted by Asher

Yeah, it's in the AP and IB curriculum I think.

There's no concept of AP here, it's just part of the standard curriculum for people who have chosen Computer Science as their optional subject.

[Solver]

Originally posted by LordShiva
I shudder to imagine Pekka writing comments in his code

/*
for (int i = 100; i > iCount; i--) {
Objects[i].Parse();
}*/
//The above won't work - decrementing i is wrong. Them punks can decrement, not the supercitizen!
for (i = 0; i < iCount; i++)
{
Objects[i].Parse();
}
int iWeight = (2^10 > (sqrt(2^10))^2) ? 666 : getWeight(); //ha-HA! got you wondering!

[Pekka]

Originally posted by Asher
Other highlights:

Q: "There are three accessibility scopes in Java and C++. Public, private, and..."
A: "Uh....um....I don't know."
Q: "Protected."
A: "Oh. That's the first I've heard of that." !!
* Asher glances at resume.
Q: "It says on your resume you know Java. Can you please elaborate on your experience with Java?"
A: "I made a minesweeper applet..."

You realize he lied to you, right? He didn't make that minesweeper himself, or if he did, he copy pasted everything , and changed the names of the variables and methods. There's no way he could make an applet of that magnitude without having no idea of what the scope even means.

[Asher]

It doesn't even matter. Even if he did write it from scratch, it's woefully inadequate.

[Spiffor]

@ Solver

[Sirotnikov]

I hope you were nice enough to people.

Being on the other side is really annoying and unheartening when you know things are going poorly.

I've had several interviews for several roles in the IDF, and strangely, the ones I did worse in were the best interviews.

Cause the guys there were really nice, and even though they were asking all sorts of physics questions and I really really flunk everything, they went out of their way to keep being nice, and funny. Even offered me a kleenex cause I felt a bit off.

Anyways, when I came back home I realized why I had given such awful answers.

I apparently was sick and had an almost 39c fever! No wonder my mind failed at their questions!

[VetLegion]

Asher, what are programmers payed in Canada anyway? What would that guy have gotten if you hired him? I work as a programmer at the moment and my current monthly salary is a secret, but I can say it's only slightly better than my last salary which was... let me calculate... ~920 US$ a month. And I write pretty serious stuff - banking software in C/C++ and Java. How much would I be payed for that in Canada?

[Sirotnikov]

Speaking of negative psycho-babble questions:

The final interview, was about an hour long and was with a psychologist.

It was the worse thing ever since she practically tried to break me. I was like a freaking Shin Bet interrogation!

Do you think you have lots of friends?
Do you have enemies"?
What would your friends say your weaker points are?
What did you fail at school?
Why?
Do you always put off things you don't care about?
So if your future occupation bores you, you will fail it on purpose?

ACK!

I came out of that with cold sweat and tremors.

And I got in

[Solver]

You should have refused to meet a psychologist on religious grounds .

[Sirotnikov]

ROFL.

I'm not a scientologist, and it is considered a cult here anyways.

Both refusing to take the interview, and belonging to a cult would have stopped me from getting that job. Which I wanted btw.

[Bugs ****ing Bunny]

Re: I gave my first job interview today...

Beat this. I once interviewed someone whose opening line was "I've just come out after 16 years in prison".

[Sirotnikov]

I once interviewed a dude who said he was abducted by aliens on the way here...

[Zopperoni]

Re: Re: I gave my first job interview today...

Originally posted by Lazarus and the Gimp
Beat this. I once interviewed someone whose opening line was "I've just come out after 16 years in prison".

Did you hire him?

[laurentius]

Asher, what type of business do you work with? Sofware obviously, but what kind of and for whom?