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Subject:Re: FW: Re[2]: Interview Questions (a question) From:Marilynne Smith <marilyns -at- QUALCOMM -dot- COM> Date:Tue, 12 May 1998 15:17:50 -0700
Since the laptop has its own keyboard, what did the interviewer expect you
to do with the extra keyboard? <smile>
Marilynne
At 5:53 PM -0400 5/12/98, Tracey Moore wrote:
>I had to tell this one:
>
>After going over my portfolio (lots of stuff created in Quark and Word) =
>that included some (RoboHELP) online help files on a disk, an =
>interviewer asked me "so if I give you a laptop and a keyboard, are you =
>going to be able to plug it in and use it?"
>
>Uh, duh-huh.
>
>Thank God I didn't get that job.
>
>
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