Maddenation
Interview Questions
ok everybody, here are the tentative interview questions. i hope you can give me some ideas on how to answer some of them. give me your thoughts. i’m sure everyone is interested in what you have to say. i’m going to spend this week answering these questions and working out the logistics of my nametag project and developing a purpose to the mess. i will post here with ideas and questions and cries for help.
Who are your influences?
How ‘bout that?
Favorite cereal?
Favorite dinosaur?
How many friends do you have?
How high can you jump?
Have you ever been on a shrimp boat?
Have you ever fell in the Mississippi River?
How do you hold a fork?
How tall are you?
How much do you weigh?
What makes you tick?
Who are your heroes?
What happened the year you were born?
What is your favorite font?
Why are you interviewing yourself?
What can you do?
What can’t you do?
What’s your favorite word? (radical…which is why I’ll never be a writer.)
Why are you so pretentious?
Is this a hypothetical interview?
Whadda you wanna do with your life?
Why do you design things?
Compare design to writing.
What would this interview look like if it were a poster?
Does design help you forget the fact that you really want to be a writer?
Why do you choose to design? (backwards handicapped sign)
Do you fear failure? Death?
What is design?
Do you ever copy? (no. never.)
What inspires you?
What are you the product of? (do it now, do it quickly.)
Can design be taught?
What do you take seriously?
What makes you laugh?
What is your biggest weakness?
What do you dream about?
Have you helped someone today?
How have you been a good listener to someone?
What do others think of you?
How is greatness achieved?
What do you read?
Comments
Patrick • 03/14/03 • 10:32 PM:A quick rundown on your questions (not the good ones):
How ‘bout that? CUT
Favorite cereal?
Favorite dinosaur? MORE OF THESE
How many friends do you have? CUT
Have you ever been on a shrimp boat? FORREST GUMP?
Have you ever fell in the Mississippi River? FALLEN, AND CUT
How do you hold a fork? MORE LIKE THIS (ROLL TONGUE? FOLD ARMS/HANDS (WHICH THUMB UP)? ETC.
What makes you tick? VERY BROAD
What happened the year you were born? UNLIKELY QUESTION
What is your favorite font? MORE LIKE THIS
Why are you interviewing yourself? CUT
What can you do? BROAD
What can’t you do? BROAD
What’s your favorite word? (radical…which is why I’ll never be a writer.) RADICAL HAS ITS “ISLAMIC RADICALS” USAGE TOO.
Why are you so pretentious? CUT
Is this a hypothetical interview? CUT
Whadda you wanna do with your life? SPELL OUT. BROAD.
Compare design to writing. WHY? MAKE INTO A QUESTION, OR JUST DO THIS IN YOUR ANSWER.
What would this interview look like if it were a poster? UM. WHY?
Does design help you forget the fact that you really want to be a writer? DO YOU?
Why do you choose to design? (backwards handicapped sign) SAME AS OTHER QUESTION. AND, CAN’T HANDICAPPED PEOPLE GO LEFT TOO? (I TOTALLY KNOW WHAT YOU MEAN!)
Do you fear failure? Death? BROAD
What is design? FIRST Q. IN “DESIGN” SECTION.
Do you ever copy? (no. never.) RETHINK THIS. COMPLICATE IT.
What are you the product of? (do it now, do it quickly.) C.S. LEWIS: “I am the product of long corridors, empty sunlit rooms, upstairs indoor silences, attics explored in solitude, distant noises of gurgling cisterns and pipes, and the noise of wind under the tiles. Also, of endless books.”
The rest are mostly good. You really need to organize your questions into categories, and group the broad/general questions and the philosophical quesitons and the design questions and the fact questions and … So you’re not jumping everywhere.
Also, my current feeling is that you shouldn’t try to be too cute/funny in these sorts of things. Or, if you ever expect a potential employer to see this, then be professional about it. More of the serious stuff, less of the quirky stuff.
For what it’s worth, I was a pretty bad writer when I was your age. Not saying I’m much of one now, but compared to me back then, I’m completely different. I guess I was a good enough writer to get by in school with good grades, but I didn’t really understand writing as I do now. I hope I’ll keep improving. So if you want to write, just do it a lot and you’ll get better. Also read a lot.
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