RE: "The six crappiest interview questions"

Subject: RE: "The six crappiest interview questions"
From: "Spectrum Writing" <info -at- spectrumwritingllc -dot- com>
To: "'Richard Mateosian'" <xrmxrm -at- gmail -dot- com>, "'Al Geist'" <al -dot- geist -at- geistassociates -dot- com>
Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2011 08:22:22 -0700

Or this one as well (considered by Goldman Sachs to be one of their top 25
toughest interview questions of 2010 - hate to see what 2011 will entail):

"If you were shrunk to the size of a pencil and put in a blender, how would
you get out?"

from a glassdoor.com ranking

TVB

Tammy Van Boening
Owner/Principal
Spectrum Writing, LLC
www.spectrumwritingllc.com
info -at- spectrumwritingllc -dot- com

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To: Al Geist
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Subject: Re: "The six crappiest interview questions"

I reviewed a book on Microsoft interviewing techniques
(http://xrmcontent.blogspot.com/2004/02/single-sourcing-mount-fuji.html).
The manhole cover question is quite reasonable compared with "How
would you move Mt Fuji?" ...RM

On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 10:23 AM, Al Geist <al -dot- geist -at- geistassociates -dot- com>
wrote:
> Thanks for the interview questions David. I really enjoyed the response to
> the "Why are manhole covers round?" question.
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Richard Mateosian <xrm -at- pacbell -dot- net>
Berkeley, California
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OT: "The six crappiest interview questions": From: David Neeley
RE: "The six crappiest interview questions": From: Al Geist
Re: "The six crappiest interview questions": From: Richard Mateosian

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