Hiring Horror

We had a rather weird incident few weeks back. It was an IM Interview for a CSS-XHTML Designer who says he is the top-celebrated CSS Designer in the company he works and have lots of ‘sites’ in his portfolio. We decided to check it out;

Here is the Transcript (few useless talks removed);

Me: Hi
Designer: hi
Me: Can I ask you some questions?
Designer: ok
Me: How would you define Ajax? or What is Ajax?
Designer: Asynchronous JavaScript and XML
Designer: bascily method of building anteractive application
Designer: process user requests

Me: Do you know why CSS is called “Cascading” Style Sheets
Designer: css is not ony cascading
Designer: style sheets
Designer: css completly bace of
Designer: how to show ur web page
Designer: user browser
Designer: interactive

Me: Ok, so why is it called “cascading”?
Designer: if u use css
Designer: ur web page not to havy for access
Designer: ur browser can store css

Me: so how would you add a stylesheet to a HTML page?
Designer: 3 way
Designer: inline css
Designer: rel css
Designer: import css file

Me: So, what happens if you use an ID twice or more in a single page?
Designer: is it possible?
Designer: same account no for different name
Designer: how to manaj bank
Me: forget that

Designer: boss cross browser
Designer: compativility is most important
Designer: for web app and web site becouse
Designer: some time

Me: Ok, so what is a DOCTYPE?
Designer: js also creat prob with browse
Designer: transinal
Designer: or
Designer: and
Designer: strict

Me: Ok, so when do you use Transitional and when do you use Strict?
Designer: transinal DOCTYPE
Designer: first if u want to follow web 2.0
Designer: than u should use strict
Designer: if want plane web page than u can use transinal
Designer: transinal is complitly html
Designer: strict is complitly xhtml
Designer: and dhtml
Designer: tere is some riplicate tag
Designer: u can not use strict DOCTTYPE
Designer: strict need to close tag
Designer: transinal can valid
Designer: but strict shoud
Designer: validate for transinal
Designer: baut strict should

Designer: r u there
Me: yes, reading your text
Designer: boss any web app or site depend how to eassy
Designer: access ur app any user
Designer: so always

Me: Ok, what is the difference between relative and absolute units?
Designer: actuly relative css property
Designer: start yr div after
Designer: but absolut is note
Designer: let me explane

Me: give some examples of both absolute and relative units
Designer: i have a add
Designer: hutch banner
Designer: now i want code for banner after content
Designer: and want to lode after content

Me: I said units and not about positioning
Designer: u can call a div layer befor close ur body
Designer: sorry
Designer: pls explane again
Designer: wat u want
Me: give me an example of absolute unit?
Designer: sorry i need research for this thing

Me: Ok, so what have you been using for your units?
Me: like font: 12px:
Me: font: 12em:
Designer: first if u dfine
Designer: in ur body
Designer: px
Me: forget that
Designer: 10px for 1em
Me: do you know any CSS shorthands?
Designer: no boss
Me: ok
Me: can you interprete this
Me: font: normal normal normal normal/1em “verdana, sans-serif”;
Me: what does the above line means?
Designer: actully verdana, sans-serif is font group
Designer: 1em if u define ur css
Designer: ur browser increase font after 1em
Designer: for that class or id
Me: ok, forget that
Me: so, in a font-family: “Arial, Helvetica, Verdana, sans-serif”
Me: in which order will the fonts be used?
Designer: first ur browser Arial
Designer: after helvetica
Designer: than verdana
Designer: than sans-serif
Designer: ur browser find this order
Me: would you be interested in being a trainee?
Designer: bbye take care

Well, the Designer got pissed off upon asking if he can be a trainee, he ‘bbye’ us.