What is on Your Mind?

I would employ someone from this board, preferably one with the handle wisecracker That candidate seems a perfect employee

But ignoring the blatant sycophancy and assuming that you wish to escape, I would humbly suggest you seek one who is:-
In larger companies, a good Personnel or H.R. department may well have puzzles that stretch the mind and allows you to observe the process. That may give you an insight too. Additionally, try to set some puzzles of your own, e.g. try to get them to describe the difference between truncate table table_name ; and delete from table_name ;


It might sound like passing the responsibility, but I have had too much experience of very qualified people who don't have a clue, and when you consider the cheating that is common in some places where some people may have obtained qualifications, they become worth even less, which I'm sure for some is a grave injustice.



Robin

Hi rbatte1...
Ha ha, I am not that good, but I am flexible, I do learn quickly and I reckon I have jgt's quote of attitude and aptitude...
YES! I am not alone. In my industry the amount of poeple who have advanced qualifications that cannot do a basic electronics task. If a simple relay will do a task then these people will try and include some microprocessor and peripherals just to show how clever they are...

This doesn't work with me as I have been on the planet too long and done so much with electronics over my life span that I will always attempt to take the easy route.

Thanks so far to those that have responded, interesting to read your opinions...

Bazza...

I did that once... Designed this complicated digital circuit with clocks and counters and timers to measure pulse widths, and Basil takes one look at it, nods politely and tells me "that could work" -- and takes 5 seconds to scribble an equivalent analog circuit. It had one transistor -- just one -- and maybe 5 components total. I still don't entirely understand how it worked but it was important that it be a PNP transistor, the circuit had no NPN equivalent...

The Arduino is causing something of a renaissance for electronics, yet it's hard to shake the feeling something's been lost when nobody uses anything but the brute-force approach.