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It's been a very HR day. I had never interviewed an employment applicant before, least of all to be my boss. Tough to come up with questions, in fact, that weren't "Please restate your resume, so I can hear you talk and decide if you are nice, and have a clue." But I think she'll do OK, if hired; I could work with her. She won't be as detail oriented, I think, as my outgoing boss, but that may not be a bad thing. P could drive herself nuts worrying about saving $2.

Also today were employee reviews (administered by P, my outgoing boss). Very nice and favorable, and I got a promotion one grade, plus a raise! Yay! She particularly praised me for finding stuff for D's expert witness case last December, and for my excellence in teamwork (by which I suspect she means not whining when asked to cover for somebody).

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Congrats on the raise!

One thing that our management does for interviews that amuses me is that they'll stick the potential employee in a room with their potential peers (ie, other engineers who have been here for a year or two). They tell the interviewees that its not part of the interview process, and to ask questions about the area and what it's like to live here, that type of stuff.

Then they'll ask us what we thought. Based on their questions and responses to our answers we should judge whether or not they'll fit into the organization socially.