| Hopefully, this is constructive criticism... "What port does ping work over?" Seriously, don't ask trick questions in interviews. You put the candidate in the impossible position of having to correct the interviewer, and the reaction to that tells you absolutely nothing about what the candidate knows or will do in a real-world situation. "at least access to one, even if it's not at home." And yet, this candidate will often simply answer "None" because you didn't ask about access to a network, even if the candidate maintains multiple complex networks at family members' homes. "Are open-source projects more or less secure than proprietary ones?" Don't ask yes/no questions if what you really want are pros and cons. Ask for pros and cons instead. Interviewing shouldn't involve mindreading. A lot of people will respond to a question like this by stating a thesis and then defending that thesis. A lot of your questions have that problem. You're asking specific things, hoping that the interviewee will catch on and give you general answers. That seems to be testing interview skills more than anything else. |