Re: How do you conduct technical interviews ?

Thats a tough one, and that kind of call only comes with experience. Knowing when to get a second opinion is a very hard lesson to learn

On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 10:50 AM, Peter Hitchman <pjhoraclel_at_gmail.com>wrote:

> Another perspective:
> How do you know you are not going to get someone who, given the right
> access, is not going to jump right in when in fact they should be waiting
> for someone else (like a sysadmin). I been working where I am now for so
> long that mostly I have root/sudo su access on all the machines that I touch
> and sometimes I need someone else to check me and suggest that I go and talk
> to the sysadmin people. It is of course all about balance.
>
> Cheers
>
> Pete
>
> P.S. One of the senior sysadmins likes to play the theme tune from the Lone
> Ranger when someone (especially his boss) jumps on to a machine to fix
> something and stuffs it up.
>
> On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 4:21 PM, Dan Norris <dannorris_at_dannorris.com>wrote:
>
>> Sorry for the late reply, but I just got back from a week off and thought
>> I'd add my 2 pesos (they were left over).
>>
>> As I wrote my reply, some of my thoughts were related, others were
>> straying, so I elected to blog it instead. It's at
>> http://www.dannorris.com/2008/08/18/when-i-conduct-an-interview/ if you
>> care to read. Feel free to comment there if you like.
>>
>> Dan
>>
>> Gints Plivna wrote:
>>
>>> Mhmm, the original question wasn't about just TECHNICALLY SKILLED
>>> person. Question were how to find right kind of personality. For
>>> example:
>>>
>>> What circumstance brings you here today?
>>>
>>> Ok one can formulate this question in whatever way but would you like
>>> to hire a DBA (or whatever other position) just looking for a job with
>>> some $$ more than previous work, without any other motivation?
>>>
>>> What was a major obstacle you were able to overcome in the past year?
>>>
>>> OK it is possible to formulate this question just in a bit different
>>> way and ask what was the major problem in his dba life last year.
>>>
>>> Tell me about two memorable projects, one success and one failure. To
>>> what do you attribute the success and failure?
>>>
>>> <snip>
>>>
>>>
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>
> Pete
>

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