Job interview disasters?

[Rack]

We accidentally left an interviewee in a room for 3 hours on his own. At 7pm the cleaners found him, luckily someone was still at work to talk to him. In those 3 hours he never came out of the room to see what was happening, even after 5pm!

[dangel]

I love Norton Ghost.

You sick, sick puppy you. It's rubbish If you get the chance to work on it, start again, and this time not with source from Drive Image which was rubbish too

On topic: I once went to an interview where i had to sit a test. They left me in a room on my own, so i prompty got my mobile out and rang my m8 for the answers

[sybrows]

I am currently on Jobhunting too Rave and went for a job as a telephone charity mugger (times are hard) and got through the telephone test and into the 1 to 1 interview stage (after 3 hours of waiting about) Went into this room with a Terry Waite looking chap who ran through a series of questions about what they do and all that. He then asked if I gave to charity myself ? .... And I came out with " I only really tend to give to the animally type ones, you know like whales and rhinos and stuff" and then proceeded to chat non stop about the plight of the Whale in the Thames and how sorry I felt for it.
.........................he had to stop me mid flow and told me that they mainly deal with "peopley" type Charities and unfortunately he had other interviews to conduct.
Needless to say I never got a reply about that one oops
BrOw

[Spunkey]

We accidentally left an interviewee in a room for 3 hours on his own.

(after 3 hours of waiting about)

have you two met?

[Kaine (AoD)]

have you two met?

omg.. please tell me this IS the case as this will totally make my day! haha

[sybrows]

Hahahaha Unless Rack looks like Terry Waite it was'nt me would be classic though, but thankfully in my interview there was a plethora of backpacking beauties waiting for their telephone Interview that I played snap with. (interesting interview to say the least!)
BrOw

[Jonny]

My mate had an interview with a high-ranking army officer.. All went well, got up to leave, and, before the officer could say anything, he had opened the door to the walk in cupboard, and gone in. He passed, regardless.

[yamangman]

I love Norton Ghost. I don't use any of their other products I'll be working on "enterprise" though.

Enterprise eh? You have a good working knowledge of COM/CORBA/.NET? Distributed systems?

[Dave2986]

I had and interview for rolls royce, they put a cross section of a jet engine in front of me and asked me to name the parts and state how its works

they also asked me
to draw the pressure temp graph for a jet engine
To correct the mistakes on a very large turbin fan
Something i still dont understand about a bow and arrow
If a boat is sailing in water with a rock in it and the rock is dropped into the water does the level go up or down

it was a disaster

[hitman67]

My mate had an interview with a high-ranking army officer.. All went well, got up to leave, and, before the officer could say anything, he had opened the door to the walk in cupboard, and gone in. He passed, regardless.

I do that in our office at least once a week. All the little cubicals, you can spend weeks looking for the photocopier.

[cptwhite_uk]

The answer about the boat / rock by the way is the water level goes down...the rock can displace more volume being inside the boat (due to it's density being greater than that of water). Once it's dropped into the water it only displaces it's own volume hence the water level goes down.

If you still don't understand think of it this way...you're sat in a boat with a pea in your hand that weighs 5 tonne..the boat sinks into the water a lot to compensate the weight..you drop this pea over the size, the boat rises up (the water level goes down) but the volume of the pea hardly adds any volume to the bottom of the lake, hence the overall effect is the water is lower.

Tada!

[Rack]

I don't think it was the same, we don't have anything to do with charities...

we ask that lake level question too.

Other one is the bridge and torch one, with 4 people:

There are 4 people on one side of a bridge with one torch. They are trying to cross to the other side. Only 2 people can cross at once, and they need the torch with them to cross. That means when 2 people travel over, one will have to return with the torch.
Each person travels at a certain speed:
person 1 takes 1 minute to cross
person 2 takes 2 minutes to cross
person 3 takes 7 minutes to cross
person 4 takes 10 minutes to cross

when 2 people cross together, they take the time of the slower person.

What is the quickest time they can all be across the bridge?

[Moby-Dick]

21 minutes

assume you number those people a to d.

a and d cross ( 10 mins ) , then a comes back (11 mins ) , then a and c cross (18 mins ) and a comes back 19 minutes. finally a and b cross giving the total above ( this assumes no turnaround time )

[pp05]

Where do you see yourself in 5 years? reply "interviewing you for a promotion".

[Kezzer]

Well, I may as well not create a new thread since it's relative to this.

I had my interview with Symantec as a software developer on their Enterprise Vault software last friday and.... I got the job! I think there were 100 applicants and 6 positions available so I'm pretty chuffed! I get an office with dual 19" TFT's to myself and a unix server to myself as well I think, or a Sun server to myself. The building I'm working in is fantastic, it's very modern and has a gym, pool tables, massive cafeteria which is very modernised and so much more

[pp05]

Well, I may as well not create a new thread since it's relative to this.

I had my interview with Symantec as a software developer on their Enterprise Vault software last friday and.... I got the job! I think there were 100 applicants and 6 positions available so I'm pretty chuffed! I get an office with dual 19" TFT's to myself and a unix server to myself as well I think, or a Sun server to myself. The building I'm working in is fantastic, it's very modern and has a gym, pool tables, massive cafeteria which is very modernised and so much more

congrats dude.