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Re: Brainteasers as hiring indicator (was Re: Bringing "Mental Gymnast" back On Topic)
Subject:Re: Brainteasers as hiring indicator (was Re: Bringing "Mental Gymnast" back On Topic) From:Maggie Pierce Secara <maggiros -at- yahoo -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Wed, 22 Jan 2003 13:39:45 -0800 (PST)
Just to clarify (again) the instance I brought
up--this brain teaser was part of an on-line job
application, not an interview.
Maggie
--- Steven Brown <stevenabrown -at- yahoo -dot- com> wrote:
>
> Brainteasers like the one we've hashed around today
> are fun (and f-ing frustrating!), but a better use
> of
> the limited time spent in an interview is discussion
> of the real-world challenges that technical writers
> face.
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