How to lose a perfectly good hire
The response is something a GeekTech Hiring Manager would take pride in and their recruiters groan in discomfort.
Check out this strange (but true) story…
Peter B. was an out-of-work PHP developer looking for contract work in early 2005. A recruiter he’d worked with in the past emailed him some information regarding a possible position. Reading the job description, Peter thought he’d be a good fit, so he submitted his resume and got a response via email a few days later.
The hiring manager described their typical process; Peter would have to answer a screening question to determine his skill level, and if his answer was satisfactory, they’d schedule a face-to-face interview. With a little trepidation, Peter said he was ready for the question. He was concerned that it could be about a complex topic that he wasn’t very familiar with. A few hours later, an email arrived with the subject “SCREENING QUESTION,” flagged with high importance.
His mouse hovering over the email, he expected to open it and have to answer “on a PB349 microprocessor, if memory address 0xa9f00c contains a MOV instruction to memory address 0×8ad9da, what is the magnetic force dispensed by a 64KB memory module for the next 600 instructions? You have thirty seconds.”
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How often does a perfectly good hire get lost do to something like this?