{"id":2193,"date":"2016-05-23T01:30:58","date_gmt":"2016-05-23T06:30:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/?p=2193"},"modified":"2016-05-02T07:38:23","modified_gmt":"2016-05-02T12:38:23","slug":"there-are-stupid-questions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/2016\/05\/there-are-stupid-questions\/","title":{"rendered":"There ARE Stupid Questions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips<\/p>\n<p><strong>Forget the old cliche about stupid questions. There ARE stupid questions, and hiring managers have asked me a bunch of them.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve been interviewed for jobs a dozen times There are stupid questions, and hiring managers ask them all the time.<\/p>\n<p>First, don\u2019t ask the person to solve your problems. This is a job interview, not a free consulting session. If the person solves your problems, pay them. If the person gives you alternative ways to attempt to solve your problems, pay them. If you aren&#8217;t going to pay them, don&#8217;t ask.<\/p>\n<p>Second, don\u2019t ask puzzle questions.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But, I want to see if they can think on their feet.\u201d That is a tired, lazy, cliche. What do you want? Ask about that.<\/p>\n<p>Here are a few, specific, STUPID questions (so stupid they are not in the form of questions):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Describe a situation where you had to communicate with difficult people and what you did.<\/li>\n<li>Describe a situation where you had a complex problem and what you did.<\/li>\n<li>Describe a meeting with a brain-dead interviewer and what you did (oops).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Let\u2019s talk substance about the job. For example, &#8220;What methods, tools, and techniques do you use?&#8221; If they answer something like, &#8220;Gestalt round-trip development&#8221; and you don&#8217;t know what that is. Pause and look it up on your own personal Google machine before you move on to the next not-so-stupid question.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips Forget the old cliche about stupid questions. There ARE stupid questions, and hiring managers have asked me a bunch of them. I\u2019ve been interviewed for jobs a dozen times There are stupid questions, and hiring managers ask them all the time. First, don\u2019t ask the person to solve your problems. This is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,119,247,108,67],"tags":[171,120,248,222,187],"class_list":["post-2193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adapting","category-adults","category-questions","category-reaction","category-work","tag-adapting","tag-adults","tag-questions","tag-reaction","tag-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2193"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2193\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2194,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2193\/revisions\/2194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}