job screening question

Fri Jul 6 22:07:51 UTC 2012

On Fri, 6 Jul 2012, Nick Hilliard wrote:
> On 06/07/2012 16:12, valdis.kletnieks at vt.edu wrote:
>> On Fri, 06 Jul 2012 17:42:42 +1000, Matthew Palmer said:
>>> Ugh, I know someone (thankfully no longer a current colleague) who ardently
>>> *defends* his use of questions like "what does the -M option to ps do?" on
>> Is that an African ps or a European ps? ;)
> I'll admit that I once asked a question like in an interview, but it was
> only because the candidate had said that he was an expert with the "tar"
> command.  If you're going to be that full of poop on a CV, you should
> expect to be called up on it.

This is what baffles me. People keep putting stuff on their resume that 
they simply don't know anything about. TCP/IP expert, yet they don't know 
SYN/SYNACK/ACK or subnetting. HTTP expert but they don't know what a 200 
response is.

-Dan