Had to take an Honesty test for a job i am trying to get, heres one of the questions

[coolred]

First of all, its a stupid question, cause if you put the money in, then the next person that uses the machine is gonna get something for free. So instead of you paying for one and getting one free, you now have paid for both and the next guy gets one free, unless he also puts the money in. But anyway.

So thats the question, yo paid for one item, but the mahcien gave you 2, do you somehow pay for the second item?

And slightly off topic, but about the job. I also had to do a hands on type of test with an old computer. I had 5 minutes and 5 questions to answer.

1. How many hard drives are in the computer
2. How big are(is) the hard drive(s)
3. What type of processor is it
4. What is the speed of the processor
5. How much memory is in the computer.

The first one was easy, there was only 1 hard drive. The second one should have been easy, but rather then a screw holding the drive in, they had some weird plastic clip type thing holding it in, and I couldn't seem to work the thing(yeah I know I am stupid, but I didn't want to force it and break the part, although I should have though, since the case took a lot of pulling to get it off.

The third question was easy enough it was an Intel Pentium 2 slot processor. Unfortunately I didn't really start working with computers till after the good old days of slot processors, so I couldn't seem to find the info onthe processor that specified the speed of it. Is that located on the back of the processor? There where some stickers with numbers and whatnot on them on the CPU, but none of theme seemed like a plausible number to be the speed of the chip. The memory was easy as there was a sticker on it specifying it was a 128MB stick.

So where is the CPU speed located on an Intel Pentium 2 slot processor?

Either way they are giving me an interview, I don't know why, I don't think I would knowing I couldn't find the speed of the CPU. But that was my only hang up, so once I figure that out, i feel confident I could do the job.

 

[shuan24]

i like the third option.

 

[Gurck]

For an interview for a job you want? Of course. Shit, you'd turn in your own mother for stealing a damn pack of gum... the b!tch. In reality? Rofl...

 

[eakers]

i had this question before and i said that i would not put more money in. i got the job.

 

[BCYL]

They know you are lying if you answer 'Yes', thus you fail your honesty test... who the fvck would actually put money back in?

 

[Mrvile]

Whenever the vending machine takes my dollar and doesn't give me a drink, so I have to put in another dollar to buy one, that's when I wanna kick the shlt out of the machine.

My $0.02

 

[DaveSimmons]

I'm a goody two-shoes but no, the third option describes the case perfectly.

I'd be honest and answer no on the test too, if that is enough to keep me from being hired then I wouldn't want to work at the company.

 

[Zolty]

hard drive size and cpu clock speed can be easially obtained from the initial post of the machine

 

[Queasy]

Why would you put more money in the machine? If you did, then the person who came behind you would get a free drink. The machine is out a drink no matter what you do short of sending money directly to the vending company.

 

[coolred]

I did answer no, I also answered no to another question asking this:

If you knew a family member was stealing from their employer, woudl you tell thier boss? I know these people want honest people working for them, and I am not saying I wouldn't try to talk the family member into no longer stealing, but there no way in hell I am gonna get a family member fired. Family comes first. So either they are really desperate for people, which is not good, or I did enough to impress them. Like some of you said, they know you are lying if you answer some of those questions in a way they know people really wouldn't, so maybe that liked that. I also had to take a 50 question Wonderlic Personality test. Its times at 12 minutes. They say its pretty much impossible to get all 50 questions done. I think I did like 43-45, and I think I got all but 1 right, and may have even guessed that one right.

 

[yourdeardaniel]

damn i picked yes, i meant to picked no.. fvckin vending machine gave me wrong change -_-

 

[coolred]

Originally posted by: Queasy
Why would you put more money in the machine? If you did, then the person who came behind you would get a free drink. The machine is out a drink no matter what you do short of sending money directly to the vending company.

Thats what I said in the initial post.

Zolty, it was just the case and parts inside, no power, no monitor nothing. I did some searching on the net and I think the specs may be laser etched into the processor casing, but not sure. Either way I know I got it wrong though since I just guessed 433Mhz, I left that question till the end and knew i was running out of time, so I guessed, and didn't really think about it. But I am pretty sure that the P2 had a 100Mhz FSB, right?

 

[imported_malcontent]

Was the computer working, or just open on a bench?

oh... I voted for #3

 

[KarenMarie]

the correct answer would be to leave the second product.
since it was not your mistake, paying for something you did not want makes you look like a pushover.

 

[Bootprint]

It's a sign from above, someone wants you to have the extra item.

 

[cavemanmoron]

Originally posted by: coolred

Originally posted by: Queasy
Why would you put more money in the machine? If you did, then the person who came behind you would get a free drink. The machine is out a drink no matter what you do short of sending money directly to the vending company.

Thats what I said in the initial post.

Zolty, it was just the case and parts inside, no power, no monitor nothing. I did some searching on the net and I think the specs may be laser etched into the processor casing, but not sure. Either way I know I got it wrong though since I just guessed 433Mhz, I left that question till the end and knew i was running out of time, so I guessed, and didn't really think about it. But I am pretty sure that the P2 had a 100Mhz FSB, right?

most pentium 11 are 66mhz fsb

laser etched code for speed cache.

 

[DaveSimmons]

But I am pretty sure that the P2 had a 100Mhz FSB, right?

233 -333 MHz were 66 FSB, 350-450 were 100 FSB.

 

[coolred]

Originally posted by: DaveSimmons

But I am pretty sure that the P2 had a 100Mhz FSB, right?

233 -333 MHz were 66 FSB, 350-450 were 100 FSB.

Yeah thats what I meant, I didn't know what speeds exactly where 66 and which wher 100, but I was pretty sure 433 would have been in the 100Mhz range, sinc eit was one of the last speeds made. But obviously theres not gonna be a 433 on a 100Mhz FSB.

 

[95SS]

Originally posted by: coolred

Originally posted by: Queasy
Why would you put more money in the machine? If you did, then the person who came behind you would get a free drink. The machine is out a drink no matter what you do short of sending money directly to the vending company.

Thats what I said in the initial post.

Zolty, it was just the case and parts inside, no power, no monitor nothing. I did some searching on the net and I think the specs may be laser etched into the processor casing, but not sure. Either way I know I got it wrong though since I just guessed 433Mhz, I left that question till the end and knew i was running out of time, so I guessed, and didn't really think about it. But I am pretty sure that the P2 had a 100Mhz FSB, right?

PII 350 and above had a 100Mhz FSB, IIRC. Before that it was 66Mhz.

 

[dderidex]

But 433mhz doesn't make sense for a 100fsb. That's a 66mhz FSB clock speed. 400 or 450 (4x or 4.5x) would be the 100fsb speeds.

 

[anno]

I'm an honest upstanding person but it would not occur to me to add more money to a machine that fed me 2 foods when I put in the money for 1.

since I only wanted one food, what I would DO in that situation would be give the bonus food to the first person I saw that wanted it.

arguing with a vending machine is pointless. giving it more quarters to pay for the food it accidentally decided to give me would be stupid.. *someone*.. probably someone walking by pushing buttons hoping for free food.. would reap the benefit of my extra quarters.. feeding the machine more quarters would not result in the vending machine people getting the money.

far as those computer questions go.. I'm not an insides of a computer person.. and maybe (probably) this is a stupid response but can't you find all that stuff out without turning the computer off, much less taking it apart.. was turning it on not allowed?

edit: those bits about not being able to turn it on weren't there when i started typing this

 

[rgwalt]

Was the PC you had to answer the questions about running at the time? If so, they would have been super easy to answer using the command systeminfo or something of that type.

Regarding the ethics question, could you explain yourself and your reasoning? If not, then I would say yes. If so, I would say no and explain that the money would just end up getting used by someone else and that the vending machine company wouldn't see any of it. Since the point of paying for the second item is repaying the company, and they won't see the money anyway, I wouldn't do anything.

R

 

[randomlinh]

Originally posted by: rgwalt
Was the PC you had to answer the questions about running at the time? If so, they would have been super easy to answer using the command systeminfo or something of that type.

he said they threw a pc at him w/o monitor or power. and where did you get systeminfo from...

 

[Brackis]

Originally posted by: Mrvile
Whenever the vending machine takes my dollar and doesn't give me a drink, so I have to put in another dollar to buy one, that's when I wanna kick the shlt out of the machine.

My $0.02

Actually your $2.00

 

[TwiceOver]

I don't believe there was a 433. The identification is silk screened on to the top edge of the processor something like 80xxx/100/512/malay where xxx is the processor speed.