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I was unwilling to find a more direct source. My notes are:

• At least as old as 15-Sep-1992 19:21
• Article 3590 of rec.humor.funny

• https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/rec.humor.funny/LkRysc_iVlc/mpCa4sxnC8YJ

  • 05/09/1992

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Date: Sat, 5 Sep 92 19:30:03 EDT
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From: z... at cygnus.com ^[ 1 ] source damaged (david d `zoo’ zuhn)
Subject: Job Interview pointers….
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I was on the interviewer side of a job interview for the first time a few days ago, and in preparation I asked many people for help and advice. I received a set of sample questions from a best friend in a previous life.

All credit or blame for the following truly belong to Brian R. Smith (brsmith at cs.umn.edu), and is reproduced here by permission:

• “How do you work in a team situation when all the other team members are fools and idiots?”
• “How well do you program under the influence of hard drugs?”
• “Have you ever beaten or killed a co-worker?”
• “Give me a rough estimate of the maximum dollar amount that you’ve stolen from each of your previous employers.”
• “Do you object to bullwhips in the workplace?”
• “Emacs or vi?”
• “You have a large network of Suns being used by secretaries for word processing in FrameMaker. Which GNU packages would you install for your own entertainment, and how would you justify them later?”
• “You see a wounded puppy bleeding and whimpering on the side of the road while you’re running to work to fix a downed computer that tens of users are waiting for. Do you let the puppy die?” “Why not?”
• “How much of your workday would you waste by reading news?”
• “Recite the GNU Manifesto.”

• “How many clients (30% diskless, 60% dataless, 10% /var/spool/mail only) can a Sun 600MP server serve simultaneously, and what relation does this have to angels and pinheads?”

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