Why are there still job interviews that consist mostly of behavioral questions?

[Phoenix86]

It's not like opening a .exe file in notepad will install a virus.

Attachment: totally not a virus.exe.txt
Instructions: just rename the file; it's a .exe file, but I had to put .txt at the end so it doesn't get blocked by the email filter.

User: *renames file and opens it*

edit: every version of mail I have used in the last decade detects the .exe file and says fuck off, I don't care what it's named, won't allow it.

 

[Spungo]

Attachment: totally not a virus.exe.txt
Instructions: just rename the file; it's a .exe file, but I had to put .txt at the end so it doesn't get blocked by the email filter.

User: *renames file and opens it*

Well then I'll send a .zip file containing a .exe file. Can you stop that? I can also attach a .exe file to a .pdf file.

 

[JM Aggie08]

Pizza slider?

And I have enough trouble finding someone competent, let alone trying to figure out their personality.

Running joke that I guess is not a common term -- the idea of having a coder that works with their door closed, never emerging, and you simply slide pizza under the door to keep them fed/working

 

[Phoenix86]

Well then I'll send a .zip file containing a .exe file. Can you stop that? I can also attach a .exe file to a .pdf file.

Uhh, yes. All of those would be rejected as containing a .exe file. Modern mail filtering systems will examine the file contents, not the file name (it's completely ignored). If you encrypt, rejected for not being able to inspect the contents.

 

[nakedfrog]

Running joke that I guess is not a common term -- the idea of having a coder that works with their door closed, never emerging, and you simply slide pizza under the door to keep them fed/working

That'd be a sweet gig. Then I wouldn't have to talk to all these meatbags.

 

[blankslate]

Weeds out the psycho killers and/or Replicants.

Lol - http://io9.com/when-a-newspaper-gave...o-m-1687558534

Seems like the more advanced models are more useful for imitating girly-man empathy-mongering democrat politicians. =P


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[Spungo]

Uhh, yes. All of those would be rejected as containing a .exe file. Modern mail filtering systems will examine the file contents, not the file name (it's completely ignored). If you encrypt, rejected for not being able to inspect the contents.

What if I put the .exe on sharepoint then give you a link to it?

 

[Brian Stirling]

Lol - http://io9.com/when-a-newspaper-gave-blade-runners-replicant-test-to-m-1687558534

Now that is brilliant!


Brian