Job Interview Questions
Richard FRANKEL
I am soon going to be involved in interviewing contractors for
Os390/COBOL2/DB2 v4 positions.
I was wondering if anybody had standard 'stock' questions (perhaps a
list) which you've used at interview, which you'd be willing to share
with me. I do have my own list, which I feel are a bit too easy. I'd
just like to know the pass-standard which anyone else is using.
Topics (and answers !!) can cover any of the COBOL2/DB2 areas, with less
emphasis on JCL and MVs utilites.
TIA
The Goobers
Richard FRANKEL wrote:
>
> I am soon going to be involved in interviewing contractors for
> Os390/COBOL2/DB2 v4 positions.
> I was wondering if anybody had standard 'stock' questions (perhaps a
> list) which you've used at interview, which you'd be willing to share
> with me.
Gosh, I do not envy *you*... I *hate* interviewing-questions. (even
though I am a consultant I have been asked to interview folks; I
gleefully reply that since I might lose my slot if the company finds a
suitable employee I cannot perform the task due to
conflict-of-interest) Try these on for size:
1) How much wood could a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck
wood?
2) We all know that men sometimes stuff socks into their trousers in
order to appear more attractive; discuss the merits of washed vs
unwashed.
3) How much will your pimp kick back to my favorite charity? To me?
To my sisters and my cousins and my aunts?
4) Is it possible to live with any Hope in a universe where Entropy is
a law?
5) Your boss makes a pass at you. What do you do?
6) Assume that the boss in 5) is the opposite sex to the original.
7) A train leaves Memphis heading north at 65 mph at 10:am. Another
train leaves Chicago at 1:pm at 55 mph. When is the vernal equinox?
(bonus points if the examinee invokes a railroad strike)
8) We all have a favorite color... why?
9) Explain the possible circunstances under which projectile vomitting
might have an aphrodisiac effect.
10) Under what circumstances would the government of the people, by the
people, for the people consider three generations of idiots to be
enough?
Have Fun!
DD
Boyce G. Williams, Jr.
Richard FRANKEL <fra...@boat.bt.com> wrote:
>I am soon going to be involved in interviewing contractors for
>Os390/COBOL2/DB2 v4 positions.
>I was wondering if anybody had standard 'stock' questions (perhaps a
>list) which you've used at interview, which you'd be willing to share
>with me. I do have my own list, which I feel are a bit too easy. I'd
>just like to know the pass-standard which anyone else is using.
>Topics (and answers !!) can cover any of the COBOL2/DB2 areas, with less
>emphasis on JCL and MVs utilites.
>TIA
Find the book "Ace the Technicial Interview" by Michael Roghstein,
ISBN 0-07-054030-6, at your local bookstore. It's full of standard
questions on most common operating systems and programming languages.
Sorry I don't have my copy here at the office to give an example.
Boyce G. Williams, Jr.
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Mark Basham
There is a product available from http://www.wayin.co.uk called Skills
Expert that will provide questions on this and other disceplines.
(Perhaps they should do one on spelling as well :)!