William Couture wrote:
> My company recently hired a contract programmer to do a project that we
> didn't have time/resources to do.  So we did several interviews.
>
> One candidate wasn't doing very well, but tried to hide it by talking a 
> lot.
>
> So, I asked him a "nonsense" question.  He did not realize that it was
> nonsense, and tried to B***S*** his way through it.
>
> Needless to say, someone else got the job.

Bill, can you share more of this experience? How did you go about finding 
the contractors? Was it a large project? Was it successful, and why you 
think it was/wasn't?

We find ourselves in these sorts of situations all the time, yet our 
experience with outsourcing is all negative.

Vitaliy 

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