Full All Things D Palm discussion 38

I agree, the constant taunting - you can hear it in the background from the lady interviewer with comments like "and I am sure you asked Apple for permission" and the most irritating response from the interviewers when Roger dared to mention the PRE had a mirror for women !

OH MY GOD tell me what is wrong with saying they thought of women when designing the phone? Just how many men need to look in the mirror compared to men? How many carry mirrors compared to men !?

These have to be some of the worst interviewers I have seen.

They were trying to get them to say we are having a war with Apple e.g "Who do you see as your competitors and don't say the market is big enough etc "

Oh so you mean answer the question your way only !

Michael Parkinson these folk are not! The purpose of an interview is to skillfully guide the conversation to get the maximum benefit for the audience not to run your own agenda.

I actually switched off after hearing the response to the mirror.

I am not against giving someone a hard time but you do it with calss and intellect not badgering.

These guys were not interviewing, they were badgering at best and they should be ashamed of themsleves as so called interviewers. They let the rest of their profession down.


Perhaps they are amateurs and I would believe it if they were. This is not a Palm gig and I think Roger is a fantastic asset to Palm and pationate about the PRE and answered many of the questions with knowledge, intellect and style where I would have just floundered.

If I was on the hot seat I would have felt seriously attacked at certain points of that situation.


I think if they went back to interview school they would have been hauled over the coals by the lecturer and used as an example of how not to conduct a professional interview

Now there is more professional interview !!!

Roger certainly has an answer for every question in both interviews. His knowledge is unquestionable. However the second interview shows how much better things turn out when when asked in a proper manner.

There is a difference between hard and badgering a good interview does not involve constantly interrupting somebodies response to their questions to the degree where you can't even take a breath.

I think they held up very well to this but Palm probably learned a lesson here and would need to pre-arrange an interview more carefully next time.

I would certianly draw up some rules of decency if they were ever to see these folk again. Somehow I doubt they will ever get the chance to interview Palm again.

So she evidently has a bug stuck somewhere. She seemed to suggest that because she doesn't wear much makeup everyone else shouldn't and therefore shouldn't need to check the state of the makeup !

Somehow it is obviously a sore point for her.

I don't care if she has personal bias, keep it out of the interview.

If she doesn't like makeup great ! All strength to her but you have no right to try and enforce your personal opinion on people and you definately don't do it in an interview.

If I were her boss I would be sending her (and her co-host) off for some remedial interview training and make it clear they sort their sh*t out)

There are so many people out of work in many industries (including this one) how do a pair of unprofessional people manage to get a wage for that sort of work.??