Let me get this straight. The author asserts the following:
Lesser managers will try to stump candidates with horrible brain teasers along the lines of “Describe a time you got into a bad situation and resolved it effectively?” — or crap like that.
What hard-hitting, incisive questions does the author ask instead?
Which of your previous jobs did you enjoy the most?
What do you think of our web site?
Tell me about your hobbies...
You've got to be kidding me. These are all soft-ball questions. What amazes me is that the author's company already has a hiring process in place. But he feels justified in abandoning this process at the end when an interviewee doesn't provide correct responses to an arbitrary list of soft-ball questions.
Lesser managers will try to stump candidates with horrible brain teasers along the lines of “Describe a time you got into a bad situation and resolved it effectively?” — or crap like that.
What hard-hitting, incisive questions does the author ask instead?
Which of your previous jobs did you enjoy the most?
What do you think of our web site?
Tell me about your hobbies...
You've got to be kidding me. These are all soft-ball questions. What amazes me is that the author's company already has a hiring process in place. But he feels justified in abandoning this process at the end when an interviewee doesn't provide correct responses to an arbitrary list of soft-ball questions.