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Mar 08How Can You Expect This?!
by in Tales from the Interview on 2008-04-22How Can You Expect This?! (from K.D.)
I was interviewing candidates for a Unix system administrator position. One of the "broad" questions I tended to ask was purely intended to get insight into the candidate's problem-solving abilities, but also a way to see what tools and techniques they might suggest (rather than the old "here's a list of tools, have you ever used them?" type of questions, since invariably every candidate would insist they had used them all).