@RegDwighт Yeah, I've known about that since Season 2 aired.

Hello!

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@tchrist ^

yes

Hey, all the questions seem to have been deleted.

WTF?

Ah, they're back.

Had to go in through my profile. Weird.

What's a good way to answer questions like "Where do you want to be career wise in five years?"

@Noah "I'd like to be retired in Tahiti fucking supermodels on a mountain of cash." It's the only honest answer. Anything else and they'll know you're lying.

ha

I usually get angry during that part of the interview

Don't make much effort to hide it either

Yeah? You can't reach down and come up with some plausible lie?

I can't be annoyed by the fact that they are wasting my time?

@Robusto It sucks when they keep asking you the same question over and over.

@JohanLarsson Well, it's like fishing, or dating. You have to put up with shit to get what you want.

Did not put up with much shit yesterday :)

Is this where you wanna be in five years @JohanLarsson

@Robusto that youtube video is funny.

yeah it would be nice to have a selling app or something that enabled me to live where there is no industry

Or you could go with snark: "I'd like to be ass-kissing dickheads like you to get a pathetic two-percent raise and a bigger cube by a window."

Not sure I would want it full time but spring, summer and autumn would be nice

@JohanLarsson Those are pretty much the same six weeks in July where you live, right?

Why do I get sleepy when I come to this room?

And if you don't believe July has six weeks, well, I can't help you.

@Noah One thing you could say is that you want to be working with things that you are interested in and learn from together with people who feel the same.

Yeah. Emphasize the idea on working together for common goals and blah blah blah. It's really the boilerplate.

here's what I told the guy.

@Robusto depends on definition, I'd say March-October

I want to be a CEO of some sort and would like to be your boss.

Seriously, Google for tips on interviewing. Then give the pat answers. They actually work.

So I can kick you around anyway I want.

Only kidding...

Great. I didn't know about this part. The rest of the interview was great. But this part was like what the hell. So I mumbled stuff and told him things that I don't remember.

I had a recruiter once tell me people are going to ask if you have any questions for them, and one question you should ask is: "What do you see as the biggest challenges for a person like me coming into this job." And I've done it with every interviewer, and each time they marvel like I invented that question and say, "Great question!" And launch into an explanation. So it ain't rocket surgery. Learn the Ten Appropriate Things To Say and just do that.

One thing to remember during interviews is that it is not simplex, I try to interview them to get a feel for if it is a job that I want. Sometimes I have requirements like I want to meet the team and see the products etc.

And one more thing. Does it play a big role in the decision making process? Assuming you screwed up this part.

the HR animals are different.

who decided I is spelled with capital i and why?

But mostly they're just getting a feeling for how you would fit in. Only one or two people will actually assess your technical skills. And one dude is the Designated Terminator, who wants to fuck you off your game. He'll ask really dick questions and try to get you defensive. But if you know your shit, you can just steer it in that direction.

My son interviewed for a prestitious job at a world-famous institute and aced every interview until they got to this one post-doc who blew in and said, "Fuck your resume, fuck your recommendations. I want to see how much science you know." And then he launched into a question that like six people in the world would understand. If you get that guy, and you don't know what he's talking about, you basically failed the interview.

I mean, he was expecting people to answer questions about stuff he was just then exploring on the bleeding edge of research.

*prestigious

Ha. Too late to edit.

@JohanLarsson Here's my answer on that topic.

nice, I have no account so can't upvote

Hi

So did your son get the job?

Nope. He got a different one. More money, less prestige.

@JohanLarsson Get one. You got to put in your own work around here, boy.

@RegDwighт My wife and I watched it last night. Interesting. Felt like a play turned into a movie, but very good. And, like, so many good actors in it. I really like how Forest Whitaker handled his role, but then I always do. BTW, I don't know if you watch Mad Men, but the actor who played Harvey Keitel's retarded helper is none other than Jared Harris, who was Lane Pryce on that show. And the black kid is Harold Perrineau.

Too bad Giancarlo Esposito didn't have more of a part.

I've always sucked pretty much with that grammar point

is last hour evolution correct?

(concerning foreign exchange market prices)

vs evolution in last hour

vs last hour's evolution

bah let's go with last hour movements

@Robusto me voting on inglish stuff does not make much sense

And yeah, I didn't even notice Esposito the first time round, but neither did I recognize Ashley Judd.