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From: ndiamond@watdaisy.UUCP (Norman Diamond)
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Subject: Re: Interview question
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Date: Fri, 22-Feb-85 14:23:04 EST
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> > The recent discussion of
> > Dirac's delta function (function used advisedly) reminded me
> > of a problem I gave this interviewee, to wit:
> > The Fourier Transform is defined as...
> > ...a.  Prove that F{ d(f(t))/dt } = jwF(w).
> >        (What assumptions are necessary?)
> > ...
> > David L. Rick
> 
> Ah yes, HP's infamous interviewee interrogation.  When will they wise
> up and figure out that there are much more productive, and certainly
> less insulting, ways to discover qualified applicants?  Such
> non-standard and uncontrolled quizzing flirts with antidiscrimination
> laws, and I wouldn't be surprised if one of these days they got sued.
>
> ken perlow

It's far better than the random manner a lot of other companies interview
applicants, with their uninformed personnel departments.  In both cases,
a lot of qualified applicants will be ignored, but the odds are not as bad
in HP's case.
-- 

   Norman Diamond

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