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February 17, 2011 12:17:17 PM from JoeUser ForumsJoeUser Forums

Derek and the team have been interviewing candidates for various positions this week. It’s been really interesting how far Derek, Bruno, Mat and others have been able to take our interview process in terms of evaluating the skills of different people. I’ve never been interviewed for a real job, I founded Stardock while in college until I could get a real job – which I’ve never gotten yet.  So my knowledge on what a good interview process is comes second hand.

One area I do care about a lot is cultural fitting. We have basically zero voluntary turn over here. And I think a lot of the reason is how fun the environment is.  It’s a weird crew here. A silly silly crew. 

Speaking of weird, I don’t normally pimp other people’s books but Cracked.com has released a hilarious new book that I highly recommend (You Might Be a Zombie and Other Bad News.. ) holy cow is this hilarious.  But to get an idea of our culture here, this is the sort of thing we talk about a lot (weird stuff).

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Reply #1 February 17, 2011 12:42:57 PM
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When is my interview? I could be in charge of giving hugs!  I'm a big fat guy, we give great hugs!

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Reply #2 February 17, 2011 12:43:34 PM
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I got a book called the Zen of Zombie. It's very helpful for business and personal practices. I'll mention zombies in my resume when I'm out of college.

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Reply #3 February 17, 2011 1:35:04 PM
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Quoting Lord Xia,
reply 1
When is my interview? I could be in charge of giving hugs!  I'm a big fat guy, we give great hugs!

Every forum post is part of your ongoing interview process!

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Reply #4 February 17, 2011 2:16:59 PM
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Quoting ,
quoting post

... One area I do care about a lot is cultural fitting. We have basically zero voluntary turn over here. And I think a lot of the reason is how fun the environment is.  It’s a weird crew here. A silly silly crew. 

I agree with you 100%. So often protecting the corporate culture is over-looked when hiring. I've only ever hired once where culture played a secondary role to experience and it was soooooooo disruptive. Took ages to undo the damage.

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Reply #5 February 17, 2011 2:27:09 PM
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I make original instrumentals and have a deep voice for voice acting if you you are looking for anything for upcoming projects (:

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Reply #6 February 17, 2011 2:44:04 PM
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I’ve never been interviewed for a real job, I founded Stardock while in college until I could get a real job – which I’ve never gotten yet.

You're lucky.  The interview process really sucks.

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Reply #7 February 17, 2011 3:40:42 PM
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Quoting Das123,
reply 4
I agree with you 100%. So often protecting the corporate culture is over-looked when hiring. I've only ever hired once where culture played a secondary role to experience and it was soooooooo disruptive. Took ages to undo the damage.

Concur!

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Reply #8 February 17, 2011 4:34:41 PM
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You know, I see a title like this and I'm led to wonder...

 

What kind of answers do land-tiles give in interviews?

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Reply #9 February 17, 2011 4:46:51 PM
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In Elemental, most of the land tiles have nothing on their resume.

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Reply #10 February 17, 2011 5:02:20 PM
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How much immediate impact does Stardock look for in its employees?  Does it look for people that make an immediate impact, or does it look for people that will be great at x in two years?

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Reply #11 February 17, 2011 5:44:41 PM
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I love cracked

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Reply #12 February 17, 2011 6:30:48 PM
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Brad, are you willing to take a chance on a slightly-overweight 39 year old who's never programmed anything in his life, but would like to learn?  I'm open to a career change.  You won't regret it I promise. 

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Reply #13 February 17, 2011 7:04:28 PM
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I hope you even read the PM I sent you Frogboy (when you announced you were hiring)

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Reply #14 February 18, 2011 4:06:39 AM
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I'm thiosk, i'll be finishing my phD in chemistry in 2 months. 

Yesterday, I exploded mercury alloys to make awesome new materials for "solar power" or whatever it takes to get the grant funding agencies to support mercury explosions.

I'd be happy to come aboard as a design consultant to stand on a soap box and list off everything I love and hate about 4x games, and why you should totally listen to me for galciv3.  Seriously.  I'll do it.  You'll love me.  

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Reply #15 February 18, 2011 7:13:16 AM
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Quoting Lord Xia,
reply 9
In Elemental, most of the land tiles have nothing on their resume.

 

Well, they need some love and experience, I know that some of the tile are saying: If I'm good enough, I'll probably become a mountain someday!

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Reply #16 February 18, 2011 8:43:08 AM
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Quoting Goldmos,
reply 15

Quoting Lord Xia, reply 9In Elemental, most of the land tiles have nothing on their resume.
 

Well, they need some love and experience, I know that some of the tile are saying: If I'm good enough, I'll probably become a mountain someday!

While others can only sit and envy the Beach Tiles with their wonderfully moist textures. LOL

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Reply #17 February 19, 2011 10:21:28 PM
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Quoting ,
quoting post
We have basically zero voluntary turn over here...It’s a weird crew here...this is the sort of thing we talk about a lot (weird stuff).

 

And then all that talk about zombies. Sounds kind of ominous, like:

 

"You say you want to leave? Ha ha ha..."

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Reply #18 February 19, 2011 11:45:34 PM
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I had an amazing interview once - I was interviewed by these three women (Sounds like the beginning of a porno I know) but the interview degraded into a conversation about how the reason Taco Bell late night workers are typically pretty cool is because they start out as pot heads with the munchies at 12-3 a.m. and while in the drive through go "DUUUUUDE it'd be so AWESOME to work here" and thus you suddenly have a group of mellowed out drive through workers.

 

I didn't get the job though. </3

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Reply #19 February 20, 2011 2:06:18 PM
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The pranayama method to apply to interviews (and negotiations..)

First, some background. Did you know, that you breathe through only one nostril at any given time? either the left or the right. The flow of vital breath changes from the left to right nostril, periodically (changes every 20 mins). How do you know through which nostril the breath is flowing? gently block each nostril and the least resistance one is the nostril-du-moment.

Just before the interview, check the open nostril and during the interview, favor that side to face the interviewer.. 

Disclaimer: I dont claim to have invented the method. I read it in a book and have yet to apply it..

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