<p>One interviewer asked D1 - Under what circumstance would Boeing stock drop by 50%(or a large percentage) in one day?</p>
<p>Congrats to horsefeathers and D. And fingers crossed for the good interviews and jobs in play for the others updating us here.</p>
<p>Emaheevul07,</p>
<p>By recruiters, I mean any company representative coming to a campus to interview current students for jobs (often done by phone also). With my daughter’s one internship, it was a Gettysburg alumnus who was president of a firm who came to campus to bring in an intern for the summer. With her full-time job, it was simply a person from the company’s Human Resources department conducting initial screening phone interviews. The real “live” interview came later.</p>
<p>And no, she is not a science/math major. The job she just got hired for was looking for a “business-related” major. Although her major was a liberal arts one, she did minor in Economics, and in addition, took some Accounting, Finance, Management, and Marketing courses. (She squeezed an awfully broad range of courses into her four years, in addition to studying abroad). She then created a couple different versions of her resume that listed relevant coursework at the bottom in order to tailor her resume to the particular position. I don’t think this is normally done (and should not be done later in one’s career), but I think it’s OK for a fresh-out since it seems to have helped her get interviews for several different kinds of jobs. With some of the more liberal arts-type majors, it’s hard for the prospective employer to know just what that major encompassed, and seeing actual courses might clarify things and show that the candidate does have a somewhat relevant background to the job.</p>
<p>ellemenope, I have no idea. The company with the “pop quiz” on probability was an investment firm. 
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<p>A flash crash of which no one has yet to explain to me the cause!</p>
<p>ellemenope - D1 said, “if their newest and shinest plane were to crash during its maiden voyage.”</p>
<p>I think the interviewer thought D1 would talk about down turn of economy, less traveling, rise of oil price, supplier of material for Boeing going out of business, labor dispute, cancelling of a major contract…</p>
<p>The interviewer said, " A crash?! Ok, I could see that."</p>
<p>"Yeah, a rare individual but here on CC seems most parents have kids like that. </p>
<p>what, a 8 year old who can engage a random adult in conversation. so another CC child prodigy I see.</p>
<p>These are probably just affable and somewhat humble kids but their parents make them out to be some rare exceptional human being for which the human race is blessed with."</p>
<p>It is rather extraordinary how many perfect little precious children there are whose parents are on CC. I’m pretty used to it by now, as everybody on here adores their children and thinks they are exceptional, but every now and then I have to chuckle a bit, because it does get just a little much. I hope to God that those who brag to high heaven don’t actually do that in person, but only do it because it is anonymous.</p>
<p>^No need to be snarky, busdriver.</p>
<p>I have 4 pretty smart kids but one of them as a little kid was just so obviously brilliant, and an interesting conversationalist as well. One of my adult friends remarked that “_____ is the smartest person I know.” This when my child was about 6! So, yes, it happens.</p>
<p>This is the child I missed the most when he went away to college. Oh, sure I missed them all, but…</p>
<p>He has an in-person interview this morning. Last night we were arguing about grooming. He has a lot of facial hair and it grows like crazy and he is very tall so it’s quite visible to people of normal height (like me). He won’t use a razor so I bought a trimmer which was useless for him.</p>
<p>He did the prep work on the company last night so he should be ready to go. The thing is that he isn’t hugely enthusiastic about this company though I think that it’s a good place to get a start. He has some natural abilities that should benefit him in that kind of company.</p>
<p>The other company that he is talking to this week is a lot more interesting to him and I don’t blame him. The company on the West Coast is more interesting too as is something that I have in the works via connections.</p>
<p>New job postings in the career center database are dwindling to near nothing. There is still quite a bit coming in through his department email but it is mostly internships. There are some good ones in there though.</p>
<p>Sometimes it’s just so hard to resist, mommusic. I’m sure that every now and then you see a post (and I’m not talking about yours)…that just stands out. Even on CC.</p>
<p>Doesn’t it drive you crazy, bc, you know there is something that needs to be done, and they just refuse to do it? And it is obvious, and you are right!! At least they eventually figure out you’re right, several years down the road.</p>
<p>He is a bit of a hypochondriac and is worried about getting cut. Unfortunately his sister has told him that she gets cut all the time shaving and that didn’t help matters. He normally removes facial hair with a small electric device but it’s in the other residence so I’m going to pick one up at the drugstore in half an hour (I’m in the office early today). I was thinking about buying one of those Norelco Electric Triple-Head shavers - he has no problems, as long as the blade isn’t exposed. I’ve never had an electric razor as I like things simple. If I got an electric, my guess is that my daughter would use it all the time.</p>
<p>I get cut all the time, too, so I wouldn’t want to use a razor on my face. I don’t think he’s being a hypochondriac. Definitely get him one of those electric ones, nobody ever gets cut with those, no blades in sight. I don’t think anyone would let me use their electric on my legs, but that’s a good idea.</p>
<p>busdriver11- I know what you mean. Some parents just think their kid are so special. On the other hand, I feel like maybe I am too hard on them. Maybe more parents should be more like me, a Tiger Mother, who is constantly criticizing their kids and tell them what they are doing is not good enough. Did we decide on CC whether it’s good to be a Tiger Mother or not? If we did, then I will try to write about how I let my kids make their own decision.</p>
<p>I don’t think we’ll ever agree on cc whether it is good to be a Tiger Mother, that will always be argued, oldfort (but you never sound like one to me)!</p>
<p>I think we all believe our kids are special, we adore them. But I do try to not induce a gagfest with my friends and family (as their kids are special too). Grandparents, you can let it loose with, because they adore the ground their grandkids walk on (though as their children, we never got that treatment).</p>
<p>^^^I am not sure if your post about bragging was directed at my post. If it was, then my post was taken the wrong way. Someone said it’s hard to answer some of those probability questions. I concurred because my daughter didn’t know all the answers either, and she blurted out an unexpected answer, which made the interviewer think about it for a minute. She laughed about it later because her head went blank.</p>
<p>Took care of the facial hair issue with a Norelco Nose and Ear trimmer. These things can be used for cut-free shaving.</p>
<p>Interview Questions:</p>
<p>Intriguingly, my d. told her she was asked the same question at each of two interviews, the result of both of which resulted in job offers (where there were hundreds of other applicants.)</p>
<p>She was asked, “Why do you think you are better than everyone else?” (This was after spending time at an interview dinner with 60 students from Wharton, Princeton, Georgetown, etc.) She didn’t beat around the push, or say she wasn’t, or offer a liberal platitude. She simply replied, “I work harder.”</p>
<p>mini–I like it! </p>
<p>My mother and her sisters always compared their kids…if one mom had good news about her child, the others couldn’t resist chiming in with what their kids were doing. It seems like it would have been easy to defuse just by rejoicing for them all, but no. It must have been tiresome for the kids who were just average. We all grew up and nobody went to jail so we turned out ok. ;)</p>
<p>OTOH, as a grandparent I feel free to tell everyone I have the world’s smartest & cutest grandchild. They are free to respond with their grandchild stories. I mean, if grandparents can’t brag, who can?</p>
<p>And today S who is graduating has an on-site interview with a world-class company…I can’t wait to hear the details! <em>fingers crossed</em></p>
<p>bc, I think you should have just taken care of it with tweezers. Now that would have pulled him out of his fear of razors.</p>
<p>Definitely not yours that I was referring to, oldfort, this one was a standout.</p>
<p>“OTOH, as a grandparent I feel free to tell everyone I have the world’s smartest & cutest grandchild. They are free to respond with their grandchild stories. I mean, if grandparents can’t brag, who can?”</p>
<p>I can’t wait to have grandchildren. And when I do, I’m going to nauseate the entire world with stories of their incredible feats. I would like my children to get married within the next 10 years, when I can still enjoy it.</p>
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<p>That’s how he normally deals with facial hairs. He just pulls them out. I pulled a few out with tweezers last night.</p>
<p>He went to the interview - it went quite well. Then they talked about salary. They were looking to pay about 50% below market. No wonder they haven’t been able to fill their open positions for several months. Son emailed the recruiter asking him what was he thinking. Son walked away - I said that that was the right thing to do. I’ll pay him market to do my trading for me.</p>
<p>Big league tech company (NASDAQ 100) called this afternoon - phone interview on Friday. Still working on the conversion. It’s easy to be optimistic when the interviews keep coming in.</p>