market continues to dive!

[zscoundrel]

I took an "I/T aptitude test" for a job (back in the early 80's) that 
had questions about a lot of common, and a few phony, acronyms.    The 
questions were multiple guess, so it was fairly obvious when they snuck 
in a clinker, but I found the process to be quite onerous.

A 300+ question test on I/T that must be completed in an hour with a 75% 
success rate. . . . after the test was done I joked with the H/R weenie 
that they should pay me for taking the test, because it was 10 times 
more difficult than any computer job I ever had, and didn't really test 
the skills that made me great at my job.

Michael wrote:

> As long as they can spell GNU and KDE I guess they are okay. If you really
> want to have fun make up some acronym (check to make sure it isn't real.)
> and ask them what they know about it at the interview and see if they'll
> admit to not knowing. ;)
> 
> 
> Don't dream it. Be it.
> 
> ;):):-):):-):):-)8')
> Michael McGlothlin <mogmios at mlug.missouri.edu>
> http://kavlon.org/projects/
> 
> On 17 Jul 2002, Mike Coleman wrote:
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>>david nicol <whatever at davidnicol.com> writes:
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>>>how often has "and which debain packages do you maintain?" been asked in job
>>>interview?
>>>
>>Actually, I'm involved in an interview process right now (NB I am not the
>>hiring manager, nor any other sort) and this is one of the many things I
>>*explicitly* look for.
>>
>>I admit that this is quite rare, though.  Most people can't even spell
>>Debian.  ;-)
>>
>>Mike
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