I was thinking today about an interview I had at Vanguard a few years ago. The place, even on first glance, was obviously not anywhere that I would enjoy working. But I continued on the interview, chalking it up to experience.
They had scheduled several people to interview me, and I was warned about one in particular regarding his attitude and tone. He was some kind of big shot that they had hired to do some VB work for them who worked for a magazine. As their "VB expert" he was elisted to do technical interviews on the day that I had mine.
He started out immediately by asking if I knew what a bunch of acronyms were. To this day, I wonder if anyone even fresh out of college or trade school would know what any of these were. But I guess he asked about one too many obscure acronyms, and I flew off and said, "Hey, aren't you going to tell me what any of these are if I don't know?" Of course, I was thinking some different things about him personally.
But it strikes me now (as it has in the past) that he didn't really care. He didn't want to be there, and he didn't care who they hired. He asked those questions just to say, "This guy doesn't know anything." To weed out everyone. Whatever.
I'm glad these days when I get to do interviews to enlighten anyone whom doesn't know the answer to a technical question. Maybe they'll do better on their next interview.
On to another topic- I should receive my first macroeconomics test back today. I'm somewhat apprehensive about it because I was sure that I would have an advantage due to the instructor's curve grading, however, after I saw the test I realized that the rest of the class couldn't possibly do badly on it.
There were only 50 multiple choice questions, half of which came from the self-tests in the book, the other half were repeats of the first half.
For example, one question might say, "Complete the statement: Economics is the study of...", and another would say, "Complete the statement: Economics is..." Only one of the answers to the second question would begin, "...the study of..." So if you compared the end of the obviously correct second answer to those provided for the first, you could get both questions correct.
This type of thing followed somewhat into the essay questions. There was actually an essay that said, "Define Economics." I lazily copied the answer from the multiple choice question.
Other essays were basically retreads of our homework assignments. So much so, in fact, that I could have copied my homework directly to the test.
My only really big issue with the test had to do with this video we watched in class one day. It was long, and two weeks ago. How am I supposed to remember the names and events of a video I watched once two weeks ago?
Hopefully the test is a good score. I'm not going to have my GPA ruined by this teacher and his foul tests.
I really must update PageCat to let me edit posts after they're online. Spelling mistakes really bug me. I had to go back and change some of the channel editing code so that it included field priorities. The "title" field should appear at the top of the editing page, and it's disconcerting when it doesn't. I think that this change will fix things, although I'm sure I'll be futzing with it for weeks.
