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- theshizzler, on 11/05/2007, -23/+434The punchline fails to deliver.
- 30h193ool28t21, on 10/10/2007, -5/+344dunno what they expected sending questions by email
- rebotfc, on 10/10/2007, -7/+27742
- DocHoliday22, on 10/10/2007, -5/+228It's standard practice. Still can't believe they didn't call him in to clear things up. A simple phone call with some alternative questions would have been sufficient.
- jobenly, on 10/10/2007, -2/+206Is it an African or European memory module?
- klecu, on 10/10/2007, -3/+173That sucks. Note to self: don't act too smart to non-technical HR people.
- Seth024, on 10/10/2007, -4/+167I'm just wondering, what is the answer to "on a PB349 microprocessor, if memory address 0xa9f00c contains a MOV instruction to memory address 0x8ad9da, what is the magnetic force dispensed by a 64KB memory module for the next 600 instructions?"
- DocDEB, on 10/10/2007, -0/+156Should have just answered it with "Concantation - where you stick stuff together soes the 'puter can read it." Probably would have made him a department head.
- Trax416, on 10/10/2007, -1/+145When I was a senior in high school the same thing happened to me. My U-English class was in the process of writing a large essay around mid-term for a good junk of our mark. I completed it on time and wrote it as well as I possibly could (an odd thing for me in highschool). When I got it back I received a deducted mark and spoke to the teacher about it. She said "You did not write this, you plagiarized it". I told her "how can you say that, I guarantee you have no proof, I worked my ass off on this thing". She then responded "come on, I don't need proof," implying I couldn't write that well and completley dismissed me, even though I included all my rough work and notes. So, if you're reading this Mrs Stasis formerly from Sir Sandford Fleming high school, suck my fat dick.
- Elliuotatar, on 10/10/2007, -7/+118I once had a phone interview with a company and the first thing they asked me was whether I ever pirated software, and when I said no, they got really hostile, called me a liar, and said I wasn't a good fit for their company. And that was it. Interview over.
I'm not sure what the point was. Was the point to determine if I was honest? If you assume piracy itself is dishonest, and everyone pirates, then this question was a catch-22. If I lied, they would call me out on it. And if I told the truth it would only prove I didn't think piracy was a serious enough thing to lie about.
The only thing I can figure is the company itself was pirating software and they wanted to know if I'd turn them in. Wish I remembered the name of the company so I could call them out on it. Idiots. - DocHoliday22, on 10/10/2007, -12/+111There was no punchline for this. It's just an experience of a guy who was overqualified for the job.
- abcgi, on 10/10/2007, -1/+93If you are asked a simple question give a simple answer?
- koji29, on 10/10/2007, -0/+87Yeah.. seems like a stupid question, especially when shortlisted, why email?
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Funny, reminds me of an interview I conducted, only I got the opposite from my seemingly insultingly simple question:
Me: So I see you taught Advanced C programming for 4 years.
Person: Yes
Me: Ok, well this is embarrassing, but I need to ask you something, give me an example of a few different data types
Person: Uhh... .. uhm.. ..
Me: I know, it's a silly question.. you know, a datatype, used to declare a variable etc.
Person: Oh.. uhm.. uhh.. it was a long time ago that I taught.. .. String? is that one?
Me: Anything else?
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All the senior management was ready to hire this guy to be my boss.. I told HR to 2x check his background.. low and behold.. he did not teach where he claimed to have. - 30h193ool28t21, on 10/10/2007, -5/+87"Standard practice" when hiring developers remotely is to give them some task (a simple programme to write, or a function, or something not time-consuimg) and give a deadline (30 mins / 2 hours, depends), but to give definition of "concatenation" is a ***** nonsence : )
- K3ITHK, on 10/10/2007, -10/+83This is like when I get chain-emailed a joke.
- kwaigg, on 10/10/2007, -4/+71Obviously it's 37.2 microTeslas. I'm surprised that you didn't know that. Gosh!
- bentaisan, on 10/10/2007, -1/+68Dumb people hatesssss smart people.
HR is not a real job. HR is just a parasite of technocrats riding on the corporate back. - MrUnderbridge, on 10/10/2007, -2/+61Bet you're fun at parties
- vagabondgr, on 10/10/2007, -0/+55Are you suggesting memory modules migrate?
- thailand1972, on 10/10/2007, -1/+49- They email questions and cross their fingers hoping their candidates are honest
- The answer is kind of over-elaborate and written in an article-style - maybe he's trying too hard or maybe he's just copy and pasted it
- Ultimately it's dumb to email questions like this, hoping people won't simply Google the answer - morphie, on 10/10/2007, -8/+55Well, it could be submitted as a wikipedia-article...
- cyssero, on 04/18/2009, -4/+49I'm just surprised they told him that they thought he plagiarized, how insulting. They could have at least said, you weren't successful, sorry, or just said we think you were over-qualified. No need to rub it in his face and say he plagiarised.
He's obviously better off in a different job, hope he found a suitable one. - Unknown1987, on 10/10/2007, -9/+53ah yes sue sue sue its the american way
- BrapAllgood, on 10/10/2007, -6/+48I was accused of plagiarism in the 3rd grade, where none existed. I then proceeded to *actually* plagiarize most every paper I turned in until graduation of the 12th grade.
Moral of the story? Be judicious with the word 'liar', most especially with children; you might help create one.
(In third grade, I decided 'plagiarism' meant that you had written something too unbelievably good for a teacher to accept...but then again, that's often why they are teachers and not Doers.) - havesometea, on 10/10/2007, -0/+41I have a feeling this will have a future on Snopes.
- PJBovoNox, on 10/10/2007, -3/+44Explain that remark, given that you have no idea where the contents of those variables is coming from, otherwise go die.
- Tippis, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3937.3 if you use rounding instead of truncation... geez! :O
- clarkec321, on 10/10/2007, -3/+40HR = One of the world easiest jobs
- raynar, on 10/10/2007, -0/+37a Force is measured in midichlorians. duh.
- shirosamurai, on 10/10/2007, -2/+38No, he writes as any educated professional in their field would write.
- 15charmaxwtf, on 10/10/2007, -0/+33Probably because it was in the title :p
- christophelyon, on 10/10/2007, -1/+32I've had the very same problem with my English TOEIC score a few years ago... (I'm French, most big companies have mandatory requirements for a minimum TOEIC score for any applicants). The maximum possible score at a TOEIC exam is 990, and at my exam I have reached 960 (with 495/495 in listening comprehension, and 465/495 in reading comprehension). Then, at the interview in the company for which I had taken the test, who asks for at least 780/990 for the kind of technical jobs I was looking for, they couldn't believe me when I told them I had 960... Even with the certificate I was showing them, they wouldn't acknowledge it was real. I was refused the job...
- Sartori, on 10/10/2007, -0/+31They could be carried...
- Spuy767, on 10/10/2007, -1/+31Same thing happened to me, my AP english class we were writing poetry, I had to reach to get some faily obscure words to make it rhyme. This *****, Irene Goetze, decides that I'm just not smart enough to have written that. First off, this is a ***** AP english class, not ESoL, second, where does any instructor get off baselessly claiming that a student is incapable of doing anything? Isn't that contrariwise to the basic purpose of teaching?
- Ninjao, on 10/10/2007, -7/+37What the hell. This is made of fail and aids.
- derjames, on 10/10/2007, -6/+33a Force is not measured in Teslas.... Tesla is the Unit for Magnetic Flux density....
- raynar, on 10/10/2007, -0/+26At least he got the courtesy call back. 9 times out of 10 you submit a job and interview and everything, and you dont even get the standard "We're sorry, we found someone to do it cheaper, but we'll keep your resume on file to compare to other applicants" letter.
- ThatEvilGuy, on 10/10/2007, -3/+28wow reading that concentration explanation, I realized, I don't know ***** about computers. :(
- BRODEL, on 10/10/2007, -0/+25Kettle..
- george@CASE, on 10/10/2007, -1/+24he didn't say that suing is wrong. Only frivolous lawsuits are.
- SlowOnTheUptake, on 10/10/2007, -0/+23You plagiarized that.
- hellotyler, on 10/10/2007, -1/+23Your teachers probably felt inadequate because they couldn't come up with anything half as good as what you guys wrote, so they marked you down and assumed you were a liar. What a bunch of idiots, they really should be fired.
- morphie, on 10/10/2007, -0/+21I hope you're not a boss...
- bitspace, on 10/10/2007, -0/+21Except that the interview question specifically asked for an example of concatenation, hence the use of string concatenation in his example. Wave your e-penis elsewhere.
- shavenlunatic, on 10/10/2007, -2/+222nd problem with americans is.. they can't tell the difference between "good reason to sue" and "sue them for any reason you can think of"
get a grip brufleth, yes you had a legitimate reason to sue.. and the reason you didn't get anywhere might have been because all the lawyers weer busy with cases of "man looked funny at me and it emotionally scared me.. give me $10M!!!!" - SkippyDoorknob, on 10/10/2007, -2/+22Blendtech Blender
- mucnix, on 10/10/2007, -0/+20It may help you that its says concatenation not concentration.
- Koldkompress, on 10/10/2007, -0/+20No, that's because they're not Good teachers.
Not all Teachers are ignorant. some just like to teach. - PJBovoNox, on 10/10/2007, -5/+25I agree. CIOID is a fine example of why the world hates America.
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