The Job Interview Question That Separated the Deep Hole Drillers From the Button Pushers
I was sitting in on interviews for a deep hole drilling position at our shop. We needed someone who could run our BTA machines — not just push the green button, but understand the process well enough to handle the tough jobs, the ones where the parameters aren’t in the manual and you have to figure it out as you go. The pay was good — twenty-eight an hour plus benefits for the right candidate — so we got a lot of applicants. The stack of resumes on the HR manager’s desk was three inches thick. ...