I read somewhere that a very useful technique for interview is to ask questions which depend of the behavior of other people. This article was saying that many people will project their own feelings onto other people and using the person's expectations of other people will mirror his own personality. I guess this does not work if the person is currently disabused i.e., for example, maybe someone is very careful about writing clean code but is disappointed with his current environment.This is more for behavioural questions rather than for technical questions.

QuoteOriginally posted by: rmaxQuoteA. On the hiring side, we found that brainteasers are a complete waste of time. How many golf balls can you fit into an airplane? How many gas stations in Manhattan? A complete waste of time. They don't predict anything. They serve primarily to make the interviewer feel smart.I though that these questions were originally built from Wallstreet for hiring dealers. The question instead of "how many golf balls" would be - make me a market in the number of golf balls you can fit in an aeroplane.Or the number of media access grills in city X.

QuoteOriginally posted by: CuchulainnQuoteOriginally posted by: Polterhttp://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/20/business/in- ... htmlWhat's Big Data?It is like SQL on steroids?Seriously, how to quantity "Big Data skills"? Can everyone learn in a year or so?IMHO it is not future-proof, especially if everyone puts on his CV/resume.It is certainly not SQL on steroids but it is often portrayed to be by companies like IBM and EMC to sell their Netezza or Greenplum products. It is not easy to quantify any technical skills but I will hire someone with Hadoop Certification's. A strong Java or C# guy (For Hortonworks flavor of Hadoop) can easily learn it in under a year. But strong programming + Computer Architecture Knowledge are a pre-requisite. And a whole lot of spunk which programmers in general lack these daysThere is a lot of FUD and BS'ing going on about Big Data. But overall it is definitely a good market to be in. It is most certainly looking like a very disruptive technology along with the Cloud.

QuoteOriginally posted by: capafan2QuoteOriginally posted by: CuchulainnQuoteOriginally posted by: Polterhttp://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/20/business/in- ... htmlWhat's Big Data?It is like SQL on steroids?Seriously, how to quantity "Big Data skills"? Can everyone learn in a year or so?IMHO it is not future-proof, especially if everyone puts on his CV/resume.It is certainly not SQL on steroids but it is often portrayed to be by companies like IBM and EMC to sell their Netezza or Greenplum products. It is not easy to quantify any technical skills but I will hire someone with Hadoop Certification's. A strong Java or C# guy (For Hortonworks flavor of Hadoop) can easily learn it in under a year. But strong programming + Computer Architecture Knowledge are a pre-requisite. And a whole lot of spunk which programmers in general lack these daysThere is a lot of FUD and BS'ing going on about Big Data. But overall it is definitely a good market to be in. It is most certainly looking like a very disruptive technology along with the Cloud.What Hadoop certifications are considered to be the gold standard ?

This is also interesting and worth noticing:Quote One of the things we?ve seen from all our data crunching is that G.P.A.?s are worthless as a criteria for hiring, and test scores are worthless ? no correlation at all except for brand-new college grads, where there?s a slight correlation. Google famously used to ask everyone for a transcript and G.P.A.?s and test scores, but we don?t anymore, unless you?re just a few years out of school. We found that they don?t predict anything.What?s interesting is the proportion of people without any college education at Google has increased over time as well. So we have teams where you have 14 percent of the team made up of people who?ve never gone to college.Tell it to bank hiring managers who think you need a PhD to integrate a Gaussian function.

QuoteWhat Hadoop certifications are considered to be the gold standard ?The one's from Cloudera. They are certifications after all so experience would obviously matter more. But since that is in dearth these days, certification works out for now.

QuoteOriginally posted by: capafan2QuoteOriginally posted by: CuchulainnQuoteOriginally posted by: Polterhttp://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/20/business/in- ... htmlWhat's Big Data?It is like SQL on steroids?Seriously, how to quantity "Big Data skills"? Can everyone learn in a year or so?IMHO it is not future-proof, especially if everyone puts on his CV/resume.It is certainly not SQL on steroids but it is often portrayed to be by companies like IBM and EMC to sell their Netezza or Greenplum products. It is not easy to quantify any technical skills but I will hire someone with Hadoop Certification's. A strong Java or C# guy (For Hortonworks flavor of Hadoop) can easily learn it in under a year. But strong programming + Computer Architecture Knowledge are a pre-requisite. And a whole lot of spunk which programmers in general lack these daysThere is a lot of FUD and BS'ing going on about Big Data. But overall it is definitely a good market to be in. It is most certainly looking like a very disruptive technology along with the Cloud.I was being a bit simplistic But can we expect user scripts in Haskell that very experienced HBDA (Hadoop Big Data Administrators) create for the rest of us?Even in the early 80s user scripts were available for MIS data.Just day dreaming..