My Favorite "Fruit Company"

My favorite "fruit company" (you'll have to figure this one out on your own) emailed me earlier this week about a job opportunity with them. This was the stuff of dreams for me [quite a few] years back; less so of late.

The first step was an HR phone screen interview thing - which happened just a few minutes ago. Its evident to me now that I've been contracting so long that I'm out of practice in dealing with the HR-style interview questions. Highlights included, "what's your ideal job", "describe your ideal release cycle" and "rate your familiarity with [x] programming language on a scale of 1-to-10".

No ink blot tests, though. I guess that's because you can't do those over the phone. Yet. My sympathy goes out to future generations.

The paragon of stupid HR questions, "what's your greatest weakness", wasn't posed to me. I would have hung up. She would have called back and continued where we left off. And I would have hung up again. Eventually I would have mused, "That's peculiar: every time you ask a stupid question, we get disconnected." Thankfully, it didn't come to that.

I expect things will improve once I'm talking to non-HR people. I hope.