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Subject:Re: Interviews (5 Year Question) From:Anne -dot- Robotti -at- radisys -dot- com To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Fri, 15 Jun 2001 13:30:09 -0400
Bruce, I see what you mean, and I guess
I'm either going to be showing my age or
my inexperience here, because I've never
interviewed with an HR department or
representative. I've always interviewed
with the person I'll be working for, their boss,
and sometimes their boss's boss.
If I was interviewing with an HR person, I
guess I would get through that as best I could
and try to come back for an interview with the
people I'd actually be working for/with. I'd
never take a job (again) without seeing the
person I was working for and the space I'd
be working in.
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Anne Robotti
Technical Writer
Radisys Corporation
7 Clarke Drive, Cranbury NJ 08512
(609) 655-3111 x-326
Anne -dot- Robotti -at- radisys -dot- com wrote:
>
> >If they're sitting there reading me questions out of a manual
> >and mentally checking off the "right" answers on the checklist,
> >I dont' want to work for them anyway.
>
>I appreciate your sentiment. However, I would be slow to judge a company
>by an interview. HR departments are often a separate reality from the
>rest of the company. With some small companies, HR may even be
>contracted to someone who comes in a couple of times a week.
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