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Some good questions there, for reflection or the dreaded "do you have questions for us" bit in the interview. With regards the library. Yes, but I paid for every book in it. And most are never touched. It's frankly a little depressing.
It depends on how abstract you consider a "library". My employer does have a library of physical books, but they're almost never used. On the other hand they have an enormous amount of digital internal data - Wikis, API docs, design docs, Stack Overflow-esque Q&A, and more - that's well indexed and can be collectively searched via one query. Those assets are used constantly every day by everyone (and even moreso if y…
Well, since the Fogbeam Labs offices are my home at the moment, the answer is "yes" as a I have pretty extensive personal library. I don't have all my books cataloged (shame, shame, I know) so I don't have an exact count of how many books I have, but it's somewhere over 1000 based on the last "back of the envelope" calculation I did. And I've bought more than a few book since I did that calculation. Sadly I'm pretty…
It depends on how abstract you consider a "library". My employer does have a library of physical books, but they're almost never used. On the other hand they have an enormous amount of digital internal data - Wikis, API docs, design docs, Stack Overflow-esque Q&A, and more - that's well indexed and can be collectively searched via one query. Those assets are used constantly every day by everyone (and even moreso if y…
Can you elaborate more on the architecture of your single query system. Is everything in one source or are you searching multiple sources with one query
Well, since the Fogbeam Labs offices are my home at the moment, the answer is "yes" as a I have pretty extensive personal library. I don't have all my books cataloged (shame, shame, I know) so I don't have an exact count of how many books I have, but it's somewhere over 1000 based on the last "back of the envelope" calculation I did. And I've bought more than a few book since I did that calculation. Sadly I'm pretty…
Do you read books as you put them in your library, or is it more of a collection of books that you are working your way through?
> When was the last time your senior manager said: "I don't know the answer, but I'll research and get back to you" This is not an interesting question. An interesting question is whether they ever got back to you.
Anyway, it was during us studying the U.S. constitution and the question was about the order of succession in the case of the concurrent deaths of the president, V.P., Speaker of the House, and President Pro Tem of the Senate, so that it went to the Cabinet; I was wondering what order the Cabinet officials succeeded in. The answer is the order in which the positions were created, so Sec of State first, then Sec of Treasury, etc. I didn't remember this all these years later; you can find the info here: https://www.usa.gov/presidents#item-35877
My last job was in a corporate library. My job title was "Librarian". I was technically a Records Manager. The people I worked with appreciated the work I did and the found the library, and me, useful and helpful. Corporate librarians are out there and do good work!
Some good questions there, for reflection or the dreaded "do you have questions for us" bit in the interview. With regards the library. Yes, but I paid for every book in it. And most are never touched. It's frankly a little depressing.
Maybe if the books in your library aren't touched, that's a sign that the chosen books aren't the most valuable
Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think you are right. I was looking at it through the lens of potential “now do you have any questions” type questions, like in an interview, as some of the other comments here have mentioned. But that isn’t mentioned in the article. They are probably just for introspection that sort of question makes more sense.
(OP) Correct. The first couple sentences stress this, the questions are just mini thought experiments. Not an assertion of anything. Have fun with them, don't belabor them. If all or none of the questions aren't your cup of tea, who cares.
It's a fun position to be in where whether you get a job or not is just a thought experiment.