Re: Transistors

On Nov 15, 8:41 am, Jan Panteltje <pNaonStpealm...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On a sunny day (Thu, 15 Nov 2007 07:35:12 -0800) it happened John Larkin
<jjlar...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
<qdpoj3hje03527gk8nilrimlsomaorn...@xxxxxxx>:





This is a nice little test to give to applicants for tech or
engineering positions:

+10V
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c
+5V--------b
e
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1K
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gnd

It's an average NPN transistor.

What's the emitter voltage? Current?

What's the base voltage?

What's the base current?

What's the collector current?

Will anything get hot?

Any other comments?
Last guy I interviewed, we spent a couple of hours at a whiteboard,
doing the first steps of an actual VME module design. After I hired
him, he finished it.

John, you are right to ask simple questions like that.
I did the same to some applicants in the past, my favourite was:
Here I have 12V DC, and a 12V relays, and I need to drive this with a uc
output 0-5V, can you draw a circuit?
If they forgot the diode, then forget it.
But those guys mostly got it right.
But it is not always so straight-forward.
Once the guy I selected (actually the best of them),
was not liked by the Big Boss, and once an other chief tried to bribe me
to recommend an other guy, who came via an agency where his wife worked,
likely he or she got some provision.
I did hear huge fights on the telephone about a black technician too,
'as blacks would be lazy'.
Now and that in a country that has no discrimination.

No, that *is* discrimination, of the worst kind.

Best regards,
James Arthur
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