>>>>Some human resource personals asked me foolish questions in interviews. One favorit question is of their "Tell me your three bad characteristic".
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>>>My hardest question was "what do you do for fun". Because I couldn't say "I do interviews" :).
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>>>So I mentioned reading SF... which led to the Star Trek, which led to Capn Picard vs Capn Janeway... where I made the right choice and got the job :).
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>>I like to play chess for fun...
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>I never had anyone with enough patience to sit with me and play, so I learned some basics but by the age of eight I was out of it. Later, amazingly, everyone thought I must be great chess player just because I'm a mathematician. I know a few colleagues who are - they'd be roommates on a trip, get drunk, lie in beds in a darkened hotel room, and design problems without a board.
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>Likewise, no Sudoku. Just don't have the patience. I may be able to recalculate prices across currencies more or less accurately off the top of my head, but combinatory stuff like that, no. Not my cup of tea.

They are playing blitz. Each player has 5 minutes.