Posts Tagged ‘Interview’

5 Questions With Jan De Weer

I’m pretty sure Jan (pronounced “Yonn”) De Weer could create an Excel spreadsheet that changes the oil in his car or cooks his wife an omelette. The guy could teach Microsoft some things about its software. But, most importantly, Jan excels at his job. He knows how to communicate clearly with the firm’s leaders about every aspect of HOK’s financial condition – and he spends his days doing exactly that. In his 11 years at HOK, Jan has earned the title vice president and senior financial analyst.

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I first got to know Jan in 1998, when we began crossing paths at HOK and in road races around St. Louis. Though …

Best Interview Ever

As I was writing about appropriate internet usage at work, I thought of the best interview I’ve ever done as part of my job with HOK Advance Strategies

Denver Summer: Olive Ho, Jodi Williams, Emily Golembiewski, Antonia Cardone, Elaine Kabala, and Navara Boon-Long

We were working on a program of requirements for a federal bureau out in Denver, Colorado.  Spending a few weeks in Denver over the summer with some of my favorite colleagues from the San Francisco office was pretty good in and of itself, but this interview simply made the trip.

A typical programming interview discusses things like headcount growth, need for special spaces, etc.  We were heading in to our …

Why HOK?

While interviewing Michelle, one of the first questions I asked her was about how she came to HOK. Here’s her response. It was not the textbook answer one would expect. Take a look!!

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