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Some of my classmates and I were asked some "interesting" questions during
interviews with Shell (they are known for giving all kinds of weird interview
questions).
1. What do you think about tourism？
(By the way, they are recruiting new Chemical Engineers.)
2. What do you think about Spacetravelling？What are the benefits and drawbacks
of Spacetravelling？
3. What are some similarities between Michael Jorden and Cinderella？
4. What do you think about National Parks？What are the benefits and drawbacks
of having National Parks？
I understand that the company needs to test the candidates' way of thinking,
and I understand that sometimes the HR people would give "behavioral" type of
interviews, which consist of questions that are not related to the objective
professional field in any way. But these questions？ The only intention of them
that I can see is only to throw the candidates off. Yes, it probably shows that
the person can think faster than others and maybe possess some kind of
creativity or senses of imagination, but what about his/her professional
knowledge and technical skills？It seems to me like they don't even care about
those at all.
The fact is, at the time when they came to our campus to recruit, they were
not even actually hiring. It was just their usualy routine, which they do once
every year, and I was just another resume in their database.
I am not saying that Shell is a bad company. It obvisouly is very successful in
its business. But the kind of company that I expect to work for would be one
with more sincerity and enthusiasm. Don't they know that while they are screen-
ing for the best qualified candidates, the top ones are picking the best
company to provide the most decent work environment as well？All I can see
from the attitide of the interviewers and HR dept. are arrogance and
indifference toward their prospective employees.
Or is it like everyone just wants to get in the most money-making company no
matter what？
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: These are soft skill's questions I met while I was interviewed by MS.
: I think it is a good test for a tech lead's positions.
: 1. If MS give you 5M budget for developing. What will you do to contribute
: MS most and why?
: 2. If your manager assigned you an job, you worked it for a while.
: One day your manager's manager assign you another task and may affect
: your current assignment. What will you do?
: 3. Why you want join MS?
: Tell me what are the problems from your current job and colleagues.
: Don't tell me you don't have any problem in your current job and colleague.
: And, tell me the most serious ones.
: 4. I say, you are going to be hired. What do you see yourself in 1 year,
: 3 years, 5 years and 10 years after you are hired?
: 5. Name a website/service you like most. Then tell me how do you improve it.
: 6. If you are a team lead, how do you manage your team?
: What do you think leadership?
: If one of your colleague keep delaying your project how do you handle it?
: How did you handle the conflicts between your colleague? Give me a real
: example.
: 7. If your manager's point of view is really different from you and you are
: very insist in yours and you are sure it is the right way to go.
: How do you handle it if your manager doesn't accept your point at all?
: 8. If you can't finish your tasks in time. What will you do?
: If you face a foundamental change just before the shipping date,
: what will you do?
: (If you don't do the change the client won't be satisfied.)
: How do you define the milestone/schedule for each developing periods.
: 9. I saw you had a lot of working experiences.
: However, I am not interested in what you had done or your tech skills.
: Now, tell me what do you see your lackage / growing during pervious working
: periods.
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作者: LINC (Go cubs!) 看板: Job
標題: Re: [討論] soft questions
時間: Thu May 11 06:38:58 2006
You should understand the philosophy of these questions. The philosophy is
simple, Bill Gates said if you are smart enough, he can teach you anything.
So he puts all emphasis on "IQ" or "brain teaser" in front of any
professional skills.
This is obviously true: if you are smart enough, you can major any subject
in college without any problem. A person which can only learn a particular
thing or make one thing work is not smart and talented. More important,
high-tech is changing very fast, especially in software industry. All computer
skills we learned from college won't last for 10 years. So the philosophy is
they want to hire people who can do things, not what they have done.
※ 引述《Amily (你還是一個人嗎)》之銘言：
: Some of my classmates and I were asked some "interesting" questions during
: interviews with Shell (they are known for giving all kinds of weird interview
: questions).
: 1. What do you think about tourism？
: (By the way, they are recruiting new Chemical Engineers.)
: 2. What do you think about Spacetravelling？What are the benefits and drawbacks
: of Spacetravelling？
: 3. What are some similarities between Michael Jorden and Cinderella？
: 4. What do you think about National Parks？What are the benefits and drawbacks
: of having National Parks？
: I understand that the company needs to test the candidates' way of thinking,
: and I understand that sometimes the HR people would give "behavioral" type of
: interviews, which consist of questions that are not related to the objective
: professional field in any way. But these questions？ The only intention of them
: that I can see is only to throw the candidates off. Yes, it probably shows that
: the person can think faster than others and maybe possess some kind of
: creativity or senses of imagination, but what about his/her professional
: knowledge and technical skills？It seems to me like they don't even care about
: those at all.
: The fact is, at the time when they came to our campus to recruit, they were
: not even actually hiring. It was just their usualy routine, which they do once
: every year, and I was just another resume in their database.
: I am not saying that Shell is a bad company. It obvisouly is very successful in
: its business. But the kind of company that I expect to work for would be one
: with more sincerity and enthusiasm. Don't they know that while they are screen-
: ing for the best qualified candidates, the top ones are picking the best
: company to provide the most decent work environment as well？All I can see
: from the attitide of the interviewers and HR dept. are arrogance and
: indifference toward their prospective employees.
: Or is it like everyone just wants to get in the most money-making company no
: matter what？
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