The fun of interviewing
Foreword: Interviewing and officiating can be immense fun, as I found out at IMS Achievers Workshop 2009. To all the students who I screwed, my friends, remember even a fool can ask a question which the wisest of men cannot answer. So there! no points for guessing who was the fool around :-)
Amusement 1: I and another panellist were moderating and evaluating a GD whose topic was 'Black and White'. Abstract thinking required types. One smart alec took abstract to a new level altogether. He said with confidence ' Bipasha Basu is black'!!. He looked at me for approval. I replied with greater confidence, "If Bipasha Basu is black, I am very very fair". (plenty of giggles from female students)
Amusement 2: We were asked to conduct these stress interviews. License to rape types. So during one such grilling session, I had managed to ruffle a candidate to a fair degree. Then I asked him, "Ok, tell me how many hair are there on your head". He thought for 2 secs and replied "Billions". I exclaimed 'Billions!!'. On hindsight, I should have screamed 'Billions of blue bilious blistering barnacles'.
Amusement 3: This one had me cracking, literally. Again during those stress sessions, one candidate with IIM B,L,K,I calls came to us. A super guy.. sharp and intelligent.. however a tad conceited. So I went about my routine of bringing him down to dear terra firma. After quite a lot of grilling, I finally asked him in a rather screwing voice "Go to the board, take the chalk and write asshole". Point was to check his response to this unwarranted diktat. But the guy, confidently strode to the board, took the chalk and without hesistation wrote 'Arsehole'. Oh my god.. I actually started laughing aloud. Ha ha 'Arsehole'. When he came back, we grilled him on British v/s American spellings of Arse/Asshole. Poor chap, replied this is the only spelling he knew of. Ha ha it was damn funny.
Anyways, my best wishes to all those very very worthy candidates. I sincerely hope I could contribute to their preparations. Amen.
Amusement 1: I and another panellist were moderating and evaluating a GD whose topic was 'Black and White'. Abstract thinking required types. One smart alec took abstract to a new level altogether. He said with confidence ' Bipasha Basu is black'!!. He looked at me for approval. I replied with greater confidence, "If Bipasha Basu is black, I am very very fair". (plenty of giggles from female students)
Amusement 2: We were asked to conduct these stress interviews. License to rape types. So during one such grilling session, I had managed to ruffle a candidate to a fair degree. Then I asked him, "Ok, tell me how many hair are there on your head". He thought for 2 secs and replied "Billions". I exclaimed 'Billions!!'. On hindsight, I should have screamed 'Billions of blue bilious blistering barnacles'.
Amusement 3: This one had me cracking, literally. Again during those stress sessions, one candidate with IIM B,L,K,I calls came to us. A super guy.. sharp and intelligent.. however a tad conceited. So I went about my routine of bringing him down to dear terra firma. After quite a lot of grilling, I finally asked him in a rather screwing voice "Go to the board, take the chalk and write asshole". Point was to check his response to this unwarranted diktat. But the guy, confidently strode to the board, took the chalk and without hesistation wrote 'Arsehole'. Oh my god.. I actually started laughing aloud. Ha ha 'Arsehole'. When he came back, we grilled him on British v/s American spellings of Arse/Asshole. Poor chap, replied this is the only spelling he knew of. Ha ha it was damn funny.
Anyways, my best wishes to all those very very worthy candidates. I sincerely hope I could contribute to their preparations. Amen.
6 comments
Very well said....even fools can ask Q which the wisest cant answer.
And interviewing others is really fun.One dosnt need to answer the question,even know the answers for that matter :)
Bahut grill kiya kya becharon ko? :)
100% correct about a fool's question that even a wise person can't answer.
Oh was granted the opportunity to play the interviewer at y old firm once. We were hiring programmers. So this candidate goes, i teach C at a computer institute so i am the god of programming.
"What do you teach?"
"Pointers, constuctors, data structures"
"What are pointers?" Candidiate starts crying
"My grandmother is really sick so i can't answer that question right now"
"Sure"
Wearing the interviewer pants definately boosted my self confidence. When taking interviews i can always dig my hands into that bag for a booster pill. Definately recommended to all. :D
@ Figher Jet - Absolutely, most of the questions I ask i have no bloody clue whats the answer:-)
@ Jas - Yes yes mast grill kiya!
@ NN - LOL. thank god the candidate wasnt a smart alec who pointed fingers at you. Answering creatively ma'am!
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