Interview Questions
Jesse Dorland
Last time I posted an online Interview question. I just got an email
from the company, to do another online interview -- this is a seasonal
Job. I would like to know what you guys’ think of my answers -- and
how would you response to them.
Title of this job is Customer Service Rep (unofficially persuading
customers from returning a product). Employee gets 2% commission if a
customer keeps the products she/he bought, or buy something lese
instead.
I had trouble with some of these questions..
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Do you believe you are too honest to steal?
No
Do you believe that nearly every worker has at some time cheated his
or her employer out of something?
Yes
Each month, a long-term employee took company money to pay on a home
mortage. On payday each month, the employee paid it back. After 15
years the boss finally saw the employee putting the money back and
fired the employee. Do you think the boss was right?
Yes
Do you believe that the average person has cheated somebody out of
money or goods some time in his or her life?
Yes
If you got merchandise by accident from a vending machine, would you
put the money in the machine anyway?
No
How would you rate your own honesty?
*Above average ( I think I should've said Average...)
Average
Slightly below average
How many time have you found yourself in a shoving match or fistfight
in the last THREE YEARS?
Never ( I said never, although when I was in security I have to be
rough with some jerks).
Once or twice
A few times
Often
Mary had work for a department store for a year when one day she was
stopped by a customer just as she was going on lunch break. She would
not help the customer, say she had to eat. The Manager hearrs this and
dock Mary a week’s pay. Do you think manager was right?
Definitely Yes/NO ( Definitely NO)
Probably Yes/NO
tony cooper
<jessed...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>Hi
>
>Last time I posted an online Interview question. I just got an email
>from the company, to do another online interview -- this is a seasonal
>Job. I would like to know what you guys’ think of my answers -- and
>how would you response to them.
>
>Title of this job is Customer Service Rep (unofficially persuading
>customers from returning a product). Employee gets 2% commission if a
>customer keeps the products she/he bought, or buy something lese
>instead.
>
>I had trouble with some of these questions..
>
>-------------------------------------------------
>Do you believe you are too honest to steal?
>
>No
I wouldn't say "No" here. This questions your own honesty.
>
>Do you believe that nearly every worker has at some time cheated his
>or her employer out of something?
>
>Yes
I agree, because "nearly every" gives you wriggle room.
>Each month, a long-term employee took company money to pay on a home
>mortage. On payday each month, the employee paid it back. After 15
>years the boss finally saw the employee putting the money back and
>fired the employee. Do you think the boss was right?
>Yes
Agree.
>Do you believe that the average person has cheated somebody out of
>money or goods some time in his or her life?
>Yes
See"nearly every".
>If you got merchandise by accident from a vending machine, would you
>put the money in the machine anyway?
>
>No
Agree.
>How would you rate your own honesty?
>*Above average ( I think I should've said Average...)
>Average
>Slightly below average
Agree.
>
>How many time have you found yourself in a shoving match or fistfight
>in the last THREE YEARS?
>Never ( I said never, although when I was in security I have to be
>rough with some jerks).
>Once or twice
>A few times
>Often
"Never" is good.
>Mary had work for a department store for a year when one day she was
>stopped by a customer just as she was going on lunch break. She would
>not help the customer, say she had to eat. The Manager hearrs this and
>dock Mary a week’s pay. Do you think manager was right?
>
>Definitely Yes/NO ( Definitely NO)
>Probably Yes/NO
Agree.
It's a silly test. It encourages dishonest answers.
--
Tony Cooper - Orlando, Florida
the Omrud
> It's a silly test. It encourages dishonest answers.
And there's an underlying feeling that if you give an answer indicating
you are more honest than the average, you must be lying. Whereas you
might just be more honest.
--
David
Django Cat
If I got presented with questions like this at an interview I'd
consider it a very good reason to have serious doubts about the
employer and tell them where they could stick their job.
DC
Leslie Danks
AOL. Perhaps the employer is a firm of bank robbers looking for recruits.
Or it's a bank.
--
Les
Frances Kemmish
Assuming that you had that luxury.
Fran
Django Cat
Point taken.
R H Draney
>
>Django Cat wrote:
>>
>> If I got presented with questions like this at an interview I'd
>> consider it a very good reason to have serious doubts about the
>> employer and tell them where they could stick their job.
>
>Or it's a bank.
"But then I repeat myself"....r
--
Little-known fact: About 2% of the famous
quotations credited to "Anonymous" were actually
originated by Jasper D Anonymous, a 14th-century
maker of carriage wheels.
Don Phillipson
news:iBmIk.70635$E41....@text.news.virginmedia.com...
We need to consider also:
Alternative 1: The web site's main purpose is not to elicit true
responses but to select job applicants who will maximise
profits for the company.
Alt. 2: It costs nothing to ornament a WWW job site with
pseudo-science appropriated from elsewhere, whether
functional (profitable) or not.
Alt. 3: Many WWW job sites appear to be fraudulent,
viz. seek to get money out of job applicants rather than
to place people in jobs.
--
Don Phillipson
Carlsbad Springs
(Ottawa, Canada)
Purl Gurl
> Leslie Danks wrote:
>> Django Cat wrote:
>>> If I got presented with questions like this at an interview I'd
>>> consider it a very good reason to have serious doubts about the
>>> employer and tell them where they could stick their job.
>> AOL. Perhaps the employer is a firm of bank robbers looking for recruits.
>> Or it's a bank.
> "But then I repeat myself".
Are there still banks standing?
Reminds of a Jay Leno joke,
"I wrote a check the other day. No problem with
my check but my bank bounced."
An interesting factual bit of trivia. There is a run on
home vaults, home safes. So many people have pulled their
money out of banks, demand for home safes has skyrocketed.
Another bit of interesting trivia. Prices for gold, silver
and other precious metals are crashing. People are selling
their precious metals to cover for money they borrowed on
the margin to buy stocks in the stock markets, and lost.
A really annoying bit of trivia. OPEC is to meet to reduce
production of oil to raise oil prices back up. Excuse made
is there is less demand so we will lower production. Sure!
I am so full of useless trivia.
--
Purl Gurl
--
So many are stumped by what slips right off the top of my mind
like a man's bad fitting hairpiece.