I have been told I give some of the most technically challenging interviews most people have ever experienced.. once a lady couldnt answer any of my questions, even the easy ones, and just started crying.. little did she know she got the job because im not looking for people who know the answers, I'm looking for people who ask the right questions to arrive at and understand the answers.
@freemo
Did she accept your job offer after that interview?
@tatzelbrumm She did, and its been I think a decade since then and I have long since moved on from that job and we are still in touch. She did a wonderful job, and I got to teach her a lot in my time as her boss.
@freemo
Just out of curiosity …
what, for example, do you ask in interviews?
And what, if anything, do you say or do in interviews to overcome the discomfort of the unequal treaty
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unequal_treaty]
situation of a job interview??
@freemo
Actually, I'm a physicist and analog designer.
In the interview that went best, ever, the software engineering question (what is the OSI stack?) was the one I couldn't answer and told the interviewers point blank that I was unfamiliar with the concept.
The minimal surface question was no problem (this was the company that illuminates both Titanic and Endurance, and has some sunk cost on the seafloor in the Titan debris),
and I answered the "draw an op amp circuit" with a transistor level schematic, knowing full well that that was not the answer they expected.
@tatzelbrumm @freemo The OSI stack is the seven layer cake of one I know, yet forget most of the layers.
@Romaq @freemo
Never forget layers 8, 9, and 10.
https://community.infosecinstitute.com/discussion/28801/osi-layers-8-9-10
@tatzelbrumm @freemo oh god...
@tatzelbrumm Ya know oddly enough i cant remember ever being interviewed for the EE positions I've had. I was just offered the job no interview, or started as a non-EE and moved over once in my early career.