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Originally posted by Hobosapien View PostReminds me of a couple of interviews I've been asked to come along to as technical backup after the interviewer (IT Manager) downloaded a load of technical questions from the internet. Fortunately I was never asked the questions up front and I helped the candidates out where I could when they floundered answering some of them.
Maybe we should start a CUK secret handshake so when contractors are interviewing contractors we can shortcut the bollox.Leave a comment:
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Originally posted by Cid View Post...
Oh is that because you got the question from a book with no real idea of the real world application ?
i see....
Reminds me of a couple of interviews I've been asked to come along to as technical backup after the interviewer (IT Manager) downloaded a load of technical questions from the internet. Fortunately I was never asked the questions up front and I helped the candidates out where I could when they floundered answering some of them.
Maybe we should start a CUK secret handshake so when contractors are interviewing contractors we can shortcut the bollox.Leave a comment:
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Cid can you tell me what the 5 FSMO roles are ?
Schema Master
Domain Naming Master
ID Master
PDC
Infrastructure Master
Well done Cid you are the only person to have correctly memorized this.
Indeed but tell me Mr technical interviewer..
I have yet to be in an environment where these 5 roles have been separated onto different servers or in any way changed from just being part of the default AD set up.
Can you tell me how the roles have been dispersed in your AD environment and what the reasoning behind that was ?
No ?
Oh is that because you got the question from a book with no real idea of the real world application ?
i see....Leave a comment:
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Originally posted by NotAllThere View PostOh yes. I only came in to fix the drains... now I'm a SAP specialist on +1K a day.
There was a lovely article in Freelance Informer years ago, about a guy who claimed that he'd moved from COBOL to C, because he assumed the agency was just using an abbreviation. Then to C++, because "it's just a variant". Since reading that article if the client ever ask me "can you do x", I reply. "Yes". Then figure it out later. It's IT, not that much is that difficult.
Management and high level design simply doesn't work like that. For one thing, you have to deal with people...Leave a comment:
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Originally posted by pr1 View Post
There was a lovely article in Freelance Informer years ago, about a guy who claimed that he'd moved from COBOL to C, because he assumed the agency was just using an abbreviation. Then to C++, because "it's just a variant". Since reading that article if the client ever ask me "can you do x", I reply. "Yes". Then figure it out later. It's IT, not that much is that difficult.Leave a comment:
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I once witnessed an insurance client force every technical person from one of the Indian outsourcers before they go ttheir admin credentials so dont think its an IR35 indicatorLeave a comment:
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Originally posted by malvolio View PostThat's why your CV has to demonstrate a provable history of delivering exactly what it is the client is after. Most good people can deliver programmes almost regardless of the underlying subject matter - I've delivered Service Desks, end-to-end business improvement programmes and technical datacentre migrations, for example - but in these days of tick-box recruitment if you haven't done that job recently then you won't even get to interview.Leave a comment:
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Originally posted by Hobosapien View PostFair point, but how do chancers get weeded out at interview for such roles?
I'd expect if the CV is relatively honest then those asked for interview will have relevant experience and will be able to do the job, so it's down to the agency/recruiter checking the facts accurately to not put inappropriate candidates forward in the first place.
Just need to know one's limits and seek out appropriate opportunities then convince the client/employer you can do what's going to be asked. How the client/employer goes about that task is where the interesting differences in approach lie that I and others are probably interested to hear for future interviews.
That's why your CV has to demonstrate a provable history of delivering exactly what it is the client is after. Most good people can deliver programmes almost regardless of the underlying subject matter - I've delivered Service Desks, end-to-end business improvement programmes and technical datacentre migrations, for example - but in these days of tick-box recruitment if you haven't done that job recently then you won't even get to interview.Leave a comment:
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Originally posted by malvolio View PostYeah, dead easy - until you're in charge of a £10m budget and people's livelihoods.For example - "Here's a 300 page ITT for an outsourcing deal. How do we make a profit on it and undercut our competition. You have three days to come up with a costed proposal..."
Successful senior architects and similar don't get paid good money for talking, they have to deliver difficult and often complicated solutions aginst demanding constraints. If it was easy, everyone would do it.
Fair point, but how do chancers get weeded out at interview for such roles?
I'd expect if the CV is relatively honest then those asked for interview will have relevant experience and will be able to do the job, so it's down to the agency/recruiter checking the facts accurately to not put inappropriate candidates forward in the first place.
Just need to know one's limits and seek out appropriate opportunities then convince the client/employer you can do what's going to be asked. How the client/employer goes about that task is where the interesting differences in approach lie that I and others are probably interested to hear for future interviews.Leave a comment:
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