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s0me0nesmind1 said:
You didn't say what your answer was to the PBJ question...
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This is what I said....

Get out your bread.
Get out your Jelly, PB, Butter Knife, plate
Lay the bread down on the plate,
Use the knife to butter one side of the bread
Use the knife to butter one side of the other bread
Place the buttered sides together matching the bread shapes....
 
steppinthrax said:
This is what I said....

Get out your bread.
Get out your Jelly, PB, Butter Knife, plate
Lay the bread down on the plate,
Use the knife to butter one side of the bread
Use the knife to butter one side of the other bread
Place the buttered sides together matching the bread shapes....
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Sorry you didn't get the job :^(
 
steppinthrax said:
This is what I said....

Get out your bread.
Get out your Jelly, PB, Butter Knife, plate
Lay the bread down on the plate,
Use the knife to butter one side of the bread
Use the knife to butter one side of the other bread
Place the buttered sides together matching the bread shapes....
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The verb "to butter" literally means to spread butter on something. You told me to take out peanut butter and jelly, but then I'm just spreading butter on two pieces of bread and putting them together. Where do the peanut butter and jelly come in? That's poor writing from an instructional standpoint.
 
steppinthrax said:
So my "any key" computer joke wasn't a good idea. To them I'm a computer nerd who can't relate???
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Who knows, people can read whatever they want into it. Personally I would have done something not related to IT so they can at least see I have a mind outside of computers as well but who knows if it matters.
 
Atomic Playboy said:
The verb "to butter" literally means to spread butter on something. You told me to take out peanut butter and jelly, but then I'm just spreading butter on two pieces of bread and putting them together. Where do the peanut butter and jelly come in? That's poor writing from an instructional standpoint.
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Fuck it.....

I withdraw my application as a sandwich maker...
 
You failed on #2

You should've asked for an SOW to hire a business analyst in order to determine the requirements for the PBJ, then ask him to write an FDS and TDS in order to pass onto the sandwich engineer to make the sandwich. Then it has to go through several iterations of UAT and QC before finally being delivered into production, 3 weeks late and 5x over budget.
 
steppinthrax said:
What would you have said?
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What I would say...

Get out the seeded rye bread, because rye is the best, and doesn't get mangled like most store loaves. Also gather the preserves, natural peanut butter, plate, and table knife. If desired, place the bread in the toaster, and use the time spent toasting the bread to stir the oil into the peanut butter.

Place bread or toast on plate, and spread peanut butter on one of the pieces. Leave the last 2cm of one edge bare so there's room to clean the edge of the knife on the bread.

It's important to start with the peanut butter, because we'll be using the same knife for both ingredients. A bit of preserves in the peanut butter jar is more likely to cause spoilage than a bit of peanut butter in the preserves jar.

Using the same knife, spread the preserves on the other slice of bread, leaving 1cm of bread bare around the edge of the whole slice. This allows for expansion when the pieces of bread are put together, and the preserves are less likely to ooze from the sandwich.

Picking up the piece with peanut butter, place it peanut butter side down on to the piece with the preserves facing up. You move the peanut butter piece to the preserves because it's less likely to drip than if you moved the piece with the preserves.

Your sandwich is now finished, and you're almost ready to eat.

Place the knife in the sink, the peanut butter in the cabinet, and the preserves in the fridge. Your sandwich is now ready to enjoy.
 
--take out jelly and allow it to get to room temperature. (Fap to kill time)
--Wash hands, return to kitchen take out bread, large wooden spoon, knife, and peanut butter
--lay 2 slices of bread on counter
--with wooden spoon, scoop one full dollop of peanut butter, and fling it with a snap towards the opposing wall
--repeat step, to create two, opposing peanut butter splotches on wall.
--wipe spoon on pants. Then, use spoon for one scoop of jelly, and aim for one peanut butter splotch, combining the two.
--take each slice of bread and attach them to one of each splotches of peanut butter on the wall
--carefully drag the bread and PB&J units towards each other, and pull them away from the wall and press them together.
--yell at the kid to stop playing pokemon and clean up the mess on the wall
--put everything back, including the knife which you never used (why did you take it out, you idiot!)
--eat sandwich
 
The sandwich thing is supposed to measure your attention to detail. It's a really dumb way of doing it though. I got asked a similar question when I interviewed for my current job, but the question itself was related to the job.
 
steppinthrax said:
Oops I typed it wrong here.

I butter one side of the bread with Peanut Butter
I butter one side of the other piece of bread with Jelly....

There you go. Now does that qualify me for the IT position?
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I think must people add peanut butter to both slices, though (pro-tip--reduces bread sogginess from Jelly directly contacting bread). The jelly goes in the middle. I believe a proper PB&J is 2:1 PB to Jelly ratio

In your original description, I assumed you forgot to add jelly.
 
zinfamous said:
I think must people add peanut butter to both slices, though (pro-tip--reduces bread sogginess from Jelly directly contacting bread). The jelly goes in the middle. I believe a proper PB&J is 2:1 PB to Jelly ratio

In your original description, I assumed you forgot to add jelly.
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I think most people eat noodles and rice not sandwiches but whatever.
 
I used to be the wild card interviewer at my last job. It was fun. My two co-workers would ask all of the serious tech related and personality stuff. I would jump in and ask "If someone wrote and biography about you, what would you title it" or "If you were the size of a pencil and got dropped into a blender, how would you escape". The looks on their faces was hilarious while I sit there with a cold stare lmao.

By the way, these questions don't really help you in terms of finding their ability but it helps breaking down their "interview mode" and seeing how they really are personalty wise.
 
zinfamous said:
I think must people add peanut butter to both slices, though (pro-tip--reduces bread sogginess from Jelly directly contacting bread). The jelly goes in the middle. I believe a proper PB&J is 2:1 PB to Jelly ratio

In your original description, I assumed you forgot to add jelly.
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I don't buy that. That's putting a fairly fluid substance between two sheets of grease. It has nowhere to go but out of the sandwich, and into your lap. Keeping one piece of bread bare gives the preserves(fuck jelly) something to stick to. I've never suffered from soggy bread, and I've traveled a few hours toting a PBJ. Maybe it would be a problem if you made a week's worth at a time :^D
 
favorite joke?...

that's a lob that requires a SUPER SMASH...


So, there's a man crawling through the desert.

He'd decided to try his SUV in a little bit of cross-country travel, had great fun zooming over the badlands and through the sand, got lost, hit a big rock, and then he couldn't get it started again...
 
The PB&J question is silly but they were most likely looking for questions to them that involve problem solving. Like "who is the PB&J for?" Or does that person want a sandwich or do they want a lump of peanut butter and a lump of jelly. Do they want jam or whole wheat, and so on.
Silly question to ask most people who do that crap gave no idea other than they want a unique response which how that determines a performance level at work is beyond me.
Tell me a joke is just begging to go down a rabbit hole that HR would hate. Again I fail to see how jokes can predict work performance.
 
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Taking the bread out of the plastic to begin with would have been one of the earliest things I guess, or you're spreading thing on a wrapped loaf of bread.

It's more a progressive steps on what you would do to produce something CAM programming thing I've seen over time myself on a CNC machine.

Telling a computer how to produce something in real life terms.

They must be adopting it to others things, apparently.

You basically have to literally tell them how to do everything in a step by step sequence.

That is even negating opening the PB jar etc later.

Just at that point I guess it wasn't happening.
 
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