Date:         Thu, 7 May 1998 09:38:52 -0400
Reply-To:     "Zuckier, Gerald" <Zuckier@CHIME.ORG>
Sender:       "SAS(r) Discussion" <SAS-L@UGA.CC.UGA.EDU>
From:         "Zuckier, Gerald" <Zuckier@CHIME.ORG>
Subject:      Re: Finding SAS-aware potential employees through SAS-L
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It was one of those marathon interviews where you have to spend an hour
each with six different people. The highlight was when they couldn't
find one of the people, so they just had me sit in a vacant office for
an hour. I started to wonder if there was a surveillance camera watching
me. I'm sure if you talked to anyone in the company, they would bemoan
the dearth of skilled SAS programmers to work in their fine
establishment.
 
> ----------
> From:         BODKIN, JAY[SMTP:jay.bodkin@BELLSYGMA.COM]
> Sent:         Wednesday, May 06, 1998 4:05 PM
> To:   SAS-L@UGA.CC.UGA.EDU
> Subject:      Re: Finding SAS-aware potential employees through SAS-L
>
> Good point!
>   If someone hasn't used a particular procedure for the last 3 months,
>    they are better off checking in the manual.
>
>   BTW, I would like to meet the guy who happens to think that they
> don't
>   need manuals (of course, he only hires people with photographic
> memories).    Like other places where I have seen a lack of
> documentation, the company is   probably full of bad code and in need
> of
> a good SAS consultant.
>
>   - Jay Bodkin
>
>
> Zuckier, Gerald wrote:
> >
> > If I may jump in here:
> > In my younger days as a job hunter-gatherer, I was more than once
> asked
> > 'How would you do so and so?" or "What is the syntax for so and
> so?",
> > with reference to some SAS function, the mental files for which I
> could
> > not access under the conditions of interview stress and wearing my
> > interview head and not my programming head that day. So I would
> answer,
> > honestly and to the best of my ability, "I would look it up in the
> > manual", and specify which manual in particular I would consult. I
> would
> > invariably get a disapproving look, and an answer to the tune of "We
> > don't use manuals around here".
>