I have to agree. I have been to Japan and all of the Japanese people we interacted with were very nice.
When walking around the streets one day, a group of Japanese students walked up and were very interested in speaking with us. They explained that they were members of a English speaking club and wanted to practice on us. They were very modest and kept apologizing for their English, but they were well spoken. Weird that the guys did all the talking, and the girls just stood in the background and giggled.
Kind of made me feel like a rock star at times ( could be the fact that I am 6' 5" and they aren't used to seeing anyone that tall). Never felt that I was a "monkey at a zoo" though.
I agree. From my experience if you just sit down with the candidate and talk with the intelligently about their past work experience you will get a pretty good idea what they know. You can usually tell pretty quickly if they will fit in with your group or not.
Other than that, I don't see a lot of value in grilling them. More than likely they are nervous and will botch questions that they would normally know anyway.
This is what I have done for the last few canidates that I have hired and I've been pleased with all of them.
I am a recently laid off dot-com'er and have just now found a job after looking for almost a month. As a software engineer I thought I would be able to get a good job in a few weeks. I was use to free soda, casual dress, flex hours, good pay, and games at the office. I of course, wanted to get a job with the same perks and close to the same money.
So I filed for unemployment and posted my resume on all the job sites to see what would happen. It didn't take long for the calls to come in for interviews, but when I got them they were mostly recruiters(I hate recruiters), consulting companies(not really what I want to do) or government contracting(boring). I went on some interviews and was really depressed when I realized how good I had it. 'You mean I have to come into work by 8am everyday?', 'I have to wear what?', 'So, where is your foosball table?'.
I know, I know, I'm a spoiled engineer, but I was used to all of these perks. Then when I got some offers, I realized I am going to be taking about a 20% pay cut from where I was. Most of my laid off co-workers were in the same boat and we were fighting over the same jobs.
So I basicly had to take a big pay cut, just to go to a company where I would be working with smart people and doing good work.
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"grass root efforts"? Somehow I don't think American Idol needs any more exposure.
I have to agree. I have been to Japan and all of the Japanese people we interacted with were very nice. When walking around the streets one day, a group of Japanese students walked up and were very interested in speaking with us. They explained that they were members of a English speaking club and wanted to practice on us. They were very modest and kept apologizing for their English, but they were well spoken. Weird that the guys did all the talking, and the girls just stood in the background and giggled. Kind of made me feel like a rock star at times ( could be the fact that I am 6' 5" and they aren't used to seeing anyone that tall). Never felt that I was a "monkey at a zoo" though.
I agree. From my experience if you just sit down with the candidate and talk with the intelligently about their past work experience you will get a pretty good idea what they know. You can usually tell pretty quickly if they will fit in with your group or not.
Other than that, I don't see a lot of value in grilling them. More than likely they are nervous and will botch questions that they would normally know anyway.
This is what I have done for the last few canidates that I have hired and I've been pleased with all of them.
I am a recently laid off dot-com'er and have just now found a job after looking for almost a month. As a software engineer I thought I would be able to get a good job in a few weeks. I was use to free soda, casual dress, flex hours, good pay, and games at the office. I of course, wanted to get a job with the same perks and close to the same money.
So I filed for unemployment and posted my resume on all the job sites to see what would happen. It didn't take long for the calls to come in for interviews, but when I got them they were mostly recruiters(I hate recruiters), consulting companies(not really what I want to do) or government contracting(boring). I went on some interviews and was really depressed when I realized how good I had it. 'You mean I have to come into work by 8am everyday?', 'I have to wear what?', 'So, where is your foosball table?'.
I know, I know, I'm a spoiled engineer, but I was used to all of these perks. Then when I got some offers, I realized I am going to be taking about a 20% pay cut from where I was. Most of my laid off co-workers were in the same boat and we were fighting over the same jobs.
So I basicly had to take a big pay cut, just to go to a company where I would be working with smart people and doing good work.