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Never Quite Made the Interview

by Alex Papadimoulis in Tales from the Interview on 2008-01-23

If you’ve ever had the opportunity to review a handful of resumes, you’ve probably seen a few bad ones in the bunch. And if you’ve reviewed a whole lot of resumes, you’ve definitely seen some really bad ones. And if you’ve reviewed a whole crap ton of resumes, then chances are, some of ‘em definitely belong here.

Joel McNary sent in a resume that he received a while back for a programmer position. Based on the cover letter, I’m guessing the candidate never quite made the interview…

157 comments - Last comment @ 2020-01-30

The Case of the Clueless Candidate

by Alex Papadimoulis in Tales from the Interview on 2008-01-07

Today's Tale from the Interview comes from Scott McNair. Don't forget to submit your own interview story, from either side of the table.

The company I was working for had an opening for an additional .NET developer, and the technical portion of the interview process fell to my coworker and me. We wanted to make sure we had candidates with average-to-strong SQL experience, so we came up with a question that would hopefully expose the candidate's knowledge.

188 comments - Last comment @ 2024-06-13