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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There is no excuse for being this ignorant. It is unlikely that it stops at basic geography either.[/quote]

I mean, you can make whatever generalizations you want.  But as mentioned above, geography is not taught anymore in school and, until you have seen an ocean, [b]there's no real reason to keep it in the forefront of your memory.[/b]  That has nothing to do with other forms of knowledge, experience, life skills, or wisdom.  Or worth of a person.[/quote]

What???? THere a million reasons to keep it in the forefront of your memory. [/quote]

A million?  Name ten.  Hell, name one.[/quote]

You can't be serious. The most basic knowledge of where you are in the world is paramount. How the products make it to your house is another reason. Weather and predicting natural disasters, global and personal security. I could go on and on. Are you really this dumb?[/quote]

One interview question I like to ask people is how many tubes of toothpaste are sold in the US each year. I don't know the number, but I'm looking at how they reason it out, and how much they know about the US population size-wise. A good answer would be to say well I use about 4 tubes/year, and the US population is about 300mln so that's 1.2bln. It's close enough for me, and it's also somewhat reasonable (yes, I know the US population is 330mln but it's close enough). I had one interviewee think the US population is 10 million. She didn't get the job.

This question is important in our industry because we design systems and need to figure out expected usage. Knowing the population is a good anchor point to start with.[/quote]

Just be glad that you didn't have to answer that question to me to get your job.

Obviously you didn't consider that a not-insignificant number of people will purchase travel toothpaste for when they, well, travel. That's more than four tubes per year per person.

And dentists don't get those sample toothpastes for free. More sales.

We'll leave US toothpaste exports out of consideration so that you can save some face.

Sounds to me that you aren't the greatest fit for what you supposedly do, much less the best judge for deciding who might be a fit.[/quote]

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