Phone Interviews
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Just got off the phone with Crystal Decisions, who are interviewing me for a co-op position (C++, of course). Ugh. I'm not a phone person; don't know why, I'm just not. I freeze up or something, or maybe it's the stress of an interview, for whatever reason, I botch it in some way. So, they ask me a bunch of technical questions, of course. And I completely botch the first one: "What are the methods of
IUnknown?" Now, I do know the answer to this, and it's not a very complicated answer either. But does my brain remember this stuff? No. It just remembers that I know it. So, I've left saying something like "I know it, but I can't remember it now." Which is an incredibly crappy answer, eh? Oh well... Hopefully I did well enough on the other questions to get the job and get to go back to the West Coast; I'm sick of crappy Ontario weather. :-D And don't you just hate those HR "Tell me a time when you had to overcome adversity" questions?? Ugh. X| I prefer to wear gloves when using it, but that's merely a matter of personal hygiene [Roger Wright on VB] Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning. [Rich Cook]I generally hate all HR questions. Outside of having a complaint, haven't found much use for them yet. --
"The money power of the country will endeavor to prolong its rule by preying upon the prejudices of the people until all wealth is concentrated in a few hands and the Republic destroyed." -- Abraham Lincoln
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Atlantys wrote: Oh well... Hopefully I did well enough on the other questions to get the job and get to go back to the West Coast; I'm sick of crappy Ontario weather. Congrats! And while you are there, would you please remove some GPFs for us? :) Kant wrote: Actually she replied back to me "You shouldn't fix the bug. You should kill it"
LOL. I've never used Crystal Reports, but I've heard the problems that people have had with it. I could plug my former company and say "Just use Cognos Impromptu instead", but I know the number of GPFs in it. :-D I prefer to wear gloves when using it, but that's merely a matter of personal hygiene [Roger Wright on VB] Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning. [Rich Cook]
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Just got off the phone with Crystal Decisions, who are interviewing me for a co-op position (C++, of course). Ugh. I'm not a phone person; don't know why, I'm just not. I freeze up or something, or maybe it's the stress of an interview, for whatever reason, I botch it in some way. So, they ask me a bunch of technical questions, of course. And I completely botch the first one: "What are the methods of
IUnknown?" Now, I do know the answer to this, and it's not a very complicated answer either. But does my brain remember this stuff? No. It just remembers that I know it. So, I've left saying something like "I know it, but I can't remember it now." Which is an incredibly crappy answer, eh? Oh well... Hopefully I did well enough on the other questions to get the job and get to go back to the West Coast; I'm sick of crappy Ontario weather. :-D And don't you just hate those HR "Tell me a time when you had to overcome adversity" questions?? Ugh. X| I prefer to wear gloves when using it, but that's merely a matter of personal hygiene [Roger Wright on VB] Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning. [Rich Cook]"Tell me a time when you had to overcome adversity" "Three days ago when I avoided chewing out the last HR prick who asked me stupid questions." As far as interviews go, it helps to prepare your mental attitude by thinking of it as something you can walk away from at any time. It isn't that you want to come off as a self absorbed prick, but you don't need the extra stress of thinking "I have to have this job no matter what." I don't know it if was my maturity from age, my "I can walk away" attitude or that all the people at BioWare are friendly people, but I wasn't nervous at all when I interviewed with them. Tim Smith I'm going to patent thought. I have yet to see any prior art.
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"Tell me a time when you had to overcome adversity" "Three days ago when I avoided chewing out the last HR prick who asked me stupid questions." As far as interviews go, it helps to prepare your mental attitude by thinking of it as something you can walk away from at any time. It isn't that you want to come off as a self absorbed prick, but you don't need the extra stress of thinking "I have to have this job no matter what." I don't know it if was my maturity from age, my "I can walk away" attitude or that all the people at BioWare are friendly people, but I wasn't nervous at all when I interviewed with them. Tim Smith I'm going to patent thought. I have yet to see any prior art.
Tim Smith wrote: "I have to have this job no matter what." Funnily enough, I actually do need to have it. It's my only interview, and I have to have job for this fall.. So yeah, unfortunetaly, if they don't hire me, then I'll be....err....."in trouble" Tim Smith wrote: "Three days ago when I avoided chewing out the last HR prick who asked me stupid questions." LOL! I prefer to wear gloves when using it, but that's merely a matter of personal hygiene [Roger Wright on VB] Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning. [Rich Cook]
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Just got off the phone with Crystal Decisions, who are interviewing me for a co-op position (C++, of course). Ugh. I'm not a phone person; don't know why, I'm just not. I freeze up or something, or maybe it's the stress of an interview, for whatever reason, I botch it in some way. So, they ask me a bunch of technical questions, of course. And I completely botch the first one: "What are the methods of
IUnknown?" Now, I do know the answer to this, and it's not a very complicated answer either. But does my brain remember this stuff? No. It just remembers that I know it. So, I've left saying something like "I know it, but I can't remember it now." Which is an incredibly crappy answer, eh? Oh well... Hopefully I did well enough on the other questions to get the job and get to go back to the West Coast; I'm sick of crappy Ontario weather. :-D And don't you just hate those HR "Tell me a time when you had to overcome adversity" questions?? Ugh. X| I prefer to wear gloves when using it, but that's merely a matter of personal hygiene [Roger Wright on VB] Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning. [Rich Cook]Atlantys wrote: interviewing me for a co-op position What's that? :confused:
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Atlantys wrote: interviewing me for a co-op position What's that? :confused:
Never take a problem to your boss unless you have a solution.
This signature was created by "Code Project Quoter". -
Atlantys wrote: interviewing me for a co-op position What's that? :confused:
Never take a problem to your boss unless you have a solution.
This signature was created by "Code Project Quoter".Like an internship I suppose. So, during the 4 years when I'm getting my degree, I work for a few months, to get some real-world experience, when not at school. In my case, I go to school for 4months, then I go to work to 4months. Repeat for 5 years. So I end up getting 24 months of "real-world" experience, while only taking an extra year to get the degree. Very cool. Also helps pay tuition ($$$$). :-D I prefer to wear gloves when using it, but that's merely a matter of personal hygiene [Roger Wright on VB] Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning. [Rich Cook]
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Like an internship I suppose. So, during the 4 years when I'm getting my degree, I work for a few months, to get some real-world experience, when not at school. In my case, I go to school for 4months, then I go to work to 4months. Repeat for 5 years. So I end up getting 24 months of "real-world" experience, while only taking an extra year to get the degree. Very cool. Also helps pay tuition ($$$$). :-D I prefer to wear gloves when using it, but that's merely a matter of personal hygiene [Roger Wright on VB] Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning. [Rich Cook]
Atlantys wrote: Like an internship I suppose. In US, there is thing called Curricular Practical Training (CPT) which works almost same I believe. It's one year work permit after the study, but this is only for the foreign students.
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Just got off the phone with Crystal Decisions, who are interviewing me for a co-op position (C++, of course). Ugh. I'm not a phone person; don't know why, I'm just not. I freeze up or something, or maybe it's the stress of an interview, for whatever reason, I botch it in some way. So, they ask me a bunch of technical questions, of course. And I completely botch the first one: "What are the methods of
IUnknown?" Now, I do know the answer to this, and it's not a very complicated answer either. But does my brain remember this stuff? No. It just remembers that I know it. So, I've left saying something like "I know it, but I can't remember it now." Which is an incredibly crappy answer, eh? Oh well... Hopefully I did well enough on the other questions to get the job and get to go back to the West Coast; I'm sick of crappy Ontario weather. :-D And don't you just hate those HR "Tell me a time when you had to overcome adversity" questions?? Ugh. X| I prefer to wear gloves when using it, but that's merely a matter of personal hygiene [Roger Wright on VB] Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning. [Rich Cook]Atlantys wrote: "Tell me a time when you had to overcome adversity" Wow! I don't even understand a thing!!:confused: I also hate questions like "Can you talk about your weakness and strengths?".:mad: Weiye, Chen When pursuing your dreams, don't forget to enjoy your life...
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Just got off the phone with Crystal Decisions, who are interviewing me for a co-op position (C++, of course). Ugh. I'm not a phone person; don't know why, I'm just not. I freeze up or something, or maybe it's the stress of an interview, for whatever reason, I botch it in some way. So, they ask me a bunch of technical questions, of course. And I completely botch the first one: "What are the methods of
IUnknown?" Now, I do know the answer to this, and it's not a very complicated answer either. But does my brain remember this stuff? No. It just remembers that I know it. So, I've left saying something like "I know it, but I can't remember it now." Which is an incredibly crappy answer, eh? Oh well... Hopefully I did well enough on the other questions to get the job and get to go back to the West Coast; I'm sick of crappy Ontario weather. :-D And don't you just hate those HR "Tell me a time when you had to overcome adversity" questions?? Ugh. X| I prefer to wear gloves when using it, but that's merely a matter of personal hygiene [Roger Wright on VB] Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning. [Rich Cook]Atlantys wrote: get to go back to the West Coast; I'm sick of crappy Ontario weather. You said it man! I went from the west coast to Ontario for a few years and the following 3 things about Ontario drove me back west again: 1) Everyone bitching about politics 2) Going to the cottage to get away from it all only to discover 50,000 people are already there with their dirt bikes and they seem to think they are experiencing "nature". 3) Can't drink the water in any lake or river 4) Everyone asks what "Victoria Island" is like. 5) Office politics (the Kids in the Hall were dead on!) 6) Fake pressure in the office when there was no need for it. Thank god I came to my senses and came back to good old Vancouver Island. I'm just as happy that those poor pathetic losers in Ontario have no idea about the rest of Canada because frankly we don't want them here.;) "Things are more like they are now than they ever were before." -- Dwight Eisenhower
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Atlantys wrote: get to go back to the West Coast; I'm sick of crappy Ontario weather. You said it man! I went from the west coast to Ontario for a few years and the following 3 things about Ontario drove me back west again: 1) Everyone bitching about politics 2) Going to the cottage to get away from it all only to discover 50,000 people are already there with their dirt bikes and they seem to think they are experiencing "nature". 3) Can't drink the water in any lake or river 4) Everyone asks what "Victoria Island" is like. 5) Office politics (the Kids in the Hall were dead on!) 6) Fake pressure in the office when there was no need for it. Thank god I came to my senses and came back to good old Vancouver Island. I'm just as happy that those poor pathetic losers in Ontario have no idea about the rest of Canada because frankly we don't want them here.;) "Things are more like they are now than they ever were before." -- Dwight Eisenhower
J Cardinal wrote: I'm just as happy that those poor pathetic losers in Ontario have no idea about the rest of Canada So true! I've been asked so many times "Are you going to commute from Victoria to Vancouver if you get the job?" :wtf::wtf: As far as Torontonians are concerned, Canada stretches from Mississauga all the way to Pickering (the far west and far east suburbs of Toronto). :-D J Cardinal wrote: "Victoria Island" I have to admit that this is confusing, and I've stopped correcting people when they say it: it's just not worth my time. :-D I prefer to wear gloves when using it, but that's merely a matter of personal hygiene [Roger Wright on VB] Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning. [Rich Cook]
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J Cardinal wrote: I'm just as happy that those poor pathetic losers in Ontario have no idea about the rest of Canada So true! I've been asked so many times "Are you going to commute from Victoria to Vancouver if you get the job?" :wtf::wtf: As far as Torontonians are concerned, Canada stretches from Mississauga all the way to Pickering (the far west and far east suburbs of Toronto). :-D J Cardinal wrote: "Victoria Island" I have to admit that this is confusing, and I've stopped correcting people when they say it: it's just not worth my time. :-D I prefer to wear gloves when using it, but that's merely a matter of personal hygiene [Roger Wright on VB] Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning. [Rich Cook]
Atlantys wrote: I've been asked so many times "Are you going to commute from Victoria to Vancouver if you get the job?" Heh heh. And then they have the nerve to laugh at Americans that don't have even the most basic understanding of geography outside their own state. Nice people, just completely concerned with things that I could never give a sh*t about. I temp'ed in Ottawa in my younger days and half the time it was at government ministry offices. All that anyone ever talked about was how so and so got his daughter a job and it wasn't right, who was screwing who etc. One older guy who was some sort of manager at Energy Mines and Resources hired me for a day job binding reports then when he found out I was from B.C. he kept me on for two weeks because he was thinking of retiring to B.C. and wanted to know all about it. We sat and talked almost the entire time (your tax dollars at work) and he had a very twisted view of B.C. based on one trip he had made out to go fishing years before. He was most amazed that the bank tellers wore jeans and I told him I was surprised they wore three piece suits in Ontario since they were pretty much just glorified clerks like 7-11! If any amount of Canadians ever temp'ed at government offices for even two weeks they would be marching on Ottawa asking for a tax cut. The waste is unbelievable, people blatantly discussing how to use up budgets at the end of the year so they would get the same money next year was a very common conversation I overheard many times. So you used to work for Cognos eh? I applied there years ago, and at Corel too, I still have the rejection letter signed by Michael Cowpland (Things were much smaller then at Corel) I prefer to work from home on my 4 acres on Vancouver Island and listen instead to the frogs at night and the birds in the day time. The birds may be bitching about nepotism, but it sounds sweet to me. Cheers!
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Atlantys wrote: I've been asked so many times "Are you going to commute from Victoria to Vancouver if you get the job?" Heh heh. And then they have the nerve to laugh at Americans that don't have even the most basic understanding of geography outside their own state. Nice people, just completely concerned with things that I could never give a sh*t about. I temp'ed in Ottawa in my younger days and half the time it was at government ministry offices. All that anyone ever talked about was how so and so got his daughter a job and it wasn't right, who was screwing who etc. One older guy who was some sort of manager at Energy Mines and Resources hired me for a day job binding reports then when he found out I was from B.C. he kept me on for two weeks because he was thinking of retiring to B.C. and wanted to know all about it. We sat and talked almost the entire time (your tax dollars at work) and he had a very twisted view of B.C. based on one trip he had made out to go fishing years before. He was most amazed that the bank tellers wore jeans and I told him I was surprised they wore three piece suits in Ontario since they were pretty much just glorified clerks like 7-11! If any amount of Canadians ever temp'ed at government offices for even two weeks they would be marching on Ottawa asking for a tax cut. The waste is unbelievable, people blatantly discussing how to use up budgets at the end of the year so they would get the same money next year was a very common conversation I overheard many times. So you used to work for Cognos eh? I applied there years ago, and at Corel too, I still have the rejection letter signed by Michael Cowpland (Things were much smaller then at Corel) I prefer to work from home on my 4 acres on Vancouver Island and listen instead to the frogs at night and the birds in the day time. The birds may be bitching about nepotism, but it sounds sweet to me. Cheers!
J Cardinal wrote: The waste is unbelievable My friend co-op'd at CSIS, and there was a guy on his team who had been deemed a "security risk", so he wasn't able to do any high security level work, but they weren't allowed to fire him. So, he had no work to do, and CSIS couldn't fire him. He just played Minesweeper all day and collected his paycheck. :wtf::omg: J Cardinal wrote: I prefer to work from home on my 4 acres on Vancouver Island Nice! Where on the Island? up north? or near Victoria? I suppose you don't appreciate BC as much until you see what (southern) Ontario is like (could it be any flatter??). :-D I prefer to wear gloves when using it, but that's merely a matter of personal hygiene [Roger Wright on VB] Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning. [Rich Cook]
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J Cardinal wrote: The waste is unbelievable My friend co-op'd at CSIS, and there was a guy on his team who had been deemed a "security risk", so he wasn't able to do any high security level work, but they weren't allowed to fire him. So, he had no work to do, and CSIS couldn't fire him. He just played Minesweeper all day and collected his paycheck. :wtf::omg: J Cardinal wrote: I prefer to work from home on my 4 acres on Vancouver Island Nice! Where on the Island? up north? or near Victoria? I suppose you don't appreciate BC as much until you see what (southern) Ontario is like (could it be any flatter??). :-D I prefer to wear gloves when using it, but that's merely a matter of personal hygiene [Roger Wright on VB] Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning. [Rich Cook]
Atlantys wrote: Nice! Where on the Island? up north? or near Victoria? Used to live and work in Victoria years ago as a network tech on call, but now we're in Black Creek which is exactly half way between Courtenay and Campbell River so not exactly north island, more like upper mid-island. It's salmon country here and the fishing is excellent! Atlantys wrote: I suppose you don't appreciate BC as much until you see what (southern) Ontario is like (could it be any flatter??). Have you ever driven through Saskatchewan? Now that's FLAT "Things are more like they are now than they ever were before." -- Dwight Eisenhower