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Subject: Re: FUNNY OFFSHORE STORY
From: "Mike O." <obie1121 -at- yahoo -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2004 21:35:53 -0400


Andrew Plato wrote:

Some interviewers (like myself) will specifically ask questions to see if a
applicant "goes negative." I purposefully bait people in interviews to see
what's under the surface.

I've been interviewed by plenty of master baiters.. there's just something phony and contrived about those kind of questions that sets off my BS detector almost before the question is asked.

I usually go the bland route. Sometimes I turn the tables by asking a similar uncomfortable follow-up question: "What did you think about that client? Did you ever do business with them?" whatever. Two can play that game.

And without fail, the least qualified people will
always take the bait and start ranting about how unfair the world is.

True, that's always unpleasant.. but sometimes it can pay to suspend your judgment of someone's personality, and just look objectively at their qualifications.

One recruiter I know rejected a developer for a certain client because his personality was quiet and introverted, and frankly a little odd.... Later he bypassed the recruiter and was hired directly by the same client. The guy turned out to be a star developer who single-handedly architected and wrote much of the code for the client's flagship product. The recruiter lost a sale because of their biases against certain personality traits, and the client lost months of high-quality coding (because the guy could have been on board sooner).

Another time, I worked with a graphic designer who was just a difficult person - you could barely say hello to the guy without a problem. But he was a top-notch graphics guy. So by tolerating his quirks and by being civil to him, I got him to deliver some really nice product.

Mike O.

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