TOTAL FUCKIN DISASTER: The Musical (PROLE, others good at interviews enter)

[T234]

That is not how you interview the (fictional) president of a (fictional) company. Shit had more awkward silences than thsn a Phoenix Dark date.

[T234]

To expand, basically none of us knew what to ask other than budget. And then we were all disorganized, it was clear none of us had ever interviewed anyone EVER in a formal setting. I almost came a hair away from asking what the (fictional) Tom Hatton's favorite whiskey was.

[Van Cruncheon]

wat

[Madrun Badrun]

huh? 

[E-DuB]

"?" Indeed

[demi]

Cause you're a distinguished mentally-challenged fellow schlub. Go ask your first grader comic artist for advice

[drew]

i blame kentucky

[bud]

this guy seriously makes the worst threads ever

[T234]

Basically, we did real interviews of fake subjects today for an assignment, and it went south because none of us knew what to ask really. Almost everything was answered with "That's more of a CIO question". The only two things we got out of that interview was budget and the desire for one unified IT infrastructure. So basically, we got almost nothing, looked like unprepared cunts (Because we were. We couldn't print our prepared questions off due to printing not working), and then right after that I got a parking ticket.


Prole, do you have any tips for interviewing company heads in a formal setting?

[Van Cruncheon]

so you need questions to ask a ceo for what reason? i mean, this isn't a JOB POSITION interview for a ceo, right? more context plz

[T234]

Basically, we've been tasked with networking three separate (one company bought the other two) inventory management solutions that are drastically different [one is dialing inventory info every night into an IBM mainframe, one is Microsoft (Server 2003, SQL of some sort, proprietary Visual Basic inventory management software, encrypted VPN when sending data back to the home base), and one is open-source (Solaris, ColdFusion, also SQL, dynamic web forms, username and password but no encryption for transfer). We were told to select individual subjects for interview to gain information for this task, so we chose the three CIOs and the Prez of the company. Today we interviewed the Prez, and it didn't go well.

I'm just asking for general tips about interviewing in a formal setting, something I know VERY LITTLE of.   

[Olivia Wilde Homo]

i blame kentucky

x2

His family tree must be a gnarled mess

[recursivelyenumerable]

i would guess that if you're going to interview the CEO at all, it would be more about clarifying business priorities than gathering specific information.  you'd want to have sketches of a few possible solutions going in, along with vague ideas of what their business ramifications might be, and the purpose of the interview would be to make those ideas less vague.  not that i know anything about this stuff.

[Olivia Wilde Homo]

T234 put me on his ignore list

ROFL

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