I had a really fun phone interview last Friday. The questioned were geared more towards finding out my personality but did have a few techie questions thrown in.
Do I consider myself to be artistic? An appropriate question for the interview. I was upfront and said that I don’t consider myself to be an graphic artist, that I’m normally work with a graphic artist or a team of graphic artists helping them make their work web friendly.
The guy interviewing me said he looked at my work and told me I was a brave soul for building a website for Big Orange fans (University of Tennessee) and living in Alabama. If you don’t live in the southeast that might not make sense but the interviewer liked it.
What are my 5 favorite movies? The Lord of the Rings and then said that counts as 3 right? He laughed. Then I mentioned Phantom of the Opera, V for Vendetta and the Shrek movies – I like the computer generation on them.
What type of music do I like? I told him I’m rather eclectic in my tests since I grew up listen to Armed Forces Radio we got everything. I figured I better not tell him I like Rob Zombie.
What was the last novel I read? I had to confess the last book I read was a tech manual.
Do I think Microsoft is evil? That one made me laugh. I explained that even though my dad raised me on Macs I realized it’s a PC world so I learned to use both.
Intermixed in these questions I was asked, What is my favorite development tool? Dreamweaver, but that I’ve used Front Page and was one of the original beta testers of the product. I also mentioned I can use Notepad as needed. He also asked if I knew anything other than HTML/CSS like PERL ect. I said while I couldn’t write javascript, php, cgi, or mivascript from the ground up I could break it and fix it.
His final question was do I consider myself a geek? LOL – I told him I’m a geekette.
I did get a follow-up call on Monday. Yes, they were looking for some one with more graphical talents even though I had all the technical skills they were wanting.
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