Preparing Questions
Sep. 2nd, 2008 09:46 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
livingdebI have my annual physical exam tomorrow and am compiling a list of things to bring up.
The next day is my trainee interview, and I am preparing questions I can ask there, too. A book I'm reading recommends, among a list of 37 questions you could ask, "How would you describe the politics of this organization?" That doesn't seem like a good question to me. It's not as bad as asking about salary or benefits, but it seems in a similar non-duty related category.
Here's a question I like: "Have you measured the success rate of this training program?" If so, I can ask about the findings; if not I can ask about impressions.
I can also ask about what programming languages are being used and about changes in philosophy. I know changes are afoot from what I hear around my office and from an e-mail list I'm on.
I might also ask how people find answers to their questions once they are placed, but that seems like a better question for the folks who will be helping me through the training.
I might also bring a degree audit and/or some screen shots showing the kinds of coding I'm already doing.
Today I had a dental exam after which I asked for a copy of the page where the write down the numbers they discover by poking at your gums and they just made me one and handed to me.
The next day is my trainee interview, and I am preparing questions I can ask there, too. A book I'm reading recommends, among a list of 37 questions you could ask, "How would you describe the politics of this organization?" That doesn't seem like a good question to me. It's not as bad as asking about salary or benefits, but it seems in a similar non-duty related category.
Here's a question I like: "Have you measured the success rate of this training program?" If so, I can ask about the findings; if not I can ask about impressions.
I can also ask about what programming languages are being used and about changes in philosophy. I know changes are afoot from what I hear around my office and from an e-mail list I'm on.
I might also ask how people find answers to their questions once they are placed, but that seems like a better question for the folks who will be helping me through the training.
I might also bring a degree audit and/or some screen shots showing the kinds of coding I'm already doing.
Today I had a dental exam after which I asked for a copy of the page where the write down the numbers they discover by poking at your gums and they just made me one and handed to me.