Brian R. Smith (brsmith#cs.umn.edu):

• "How do you work in a team situation when all the other team members are fools and idiots?"
• "How well do you program under the influence of hard drugs?"
• "Have you ever beaten or killed a co-worker?"
• "Give me a rough estimate of the maximum dollar amount that you've stolen from each of your previous employers."
• "Do you object to bullwhips in the workplace?"
• "Emacs or vi?"
• "You have a large network of Suns being used by secretaries for word processing in FrameMaker. Which GNU packages would you install for your own entertainment, and how would you justify them later?"
• "You see a wounded puppy bleeding and whimpering on the side of the road while you're running to work to fix a downed computer that tens of users are waiting for. Do you let the puppy die?" "Why not?"
• "How much of your workday would you waste by reading news?"
• "Recite the GNU Manifesto."
• "How many clients (30% diskless, 60% dataless, 10% /var/spool/mail only) can a Sun 600MP server serve simultaneously, and what relation does this have to angels and pinheads?"

chuck goolsbee (goolsbee#forest.net):

• Q: "Why the hell would any sane person want to be a UNIX System Admistrator?"
  Correct Answer: "Who said I was sane?"
  Interviewer: "When can you start?"

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