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SharePoint Impostors

It is really frustrating when I am the third interview of a SharePoint person and I ask 3 basic technical questions and they have no idea on all 3. I just interviewed someone with 5 years of SharePoint experience and besides knowing the technical aspects of SharePoint understood the business analysis side. She was also very skilled with SP Designer.  Here is how the questions went... Me: assume I have a user named John Smith that has access to a SharePoint site. He has a user level permission of Read and he is part of a SharePoint group with Full Control access. Which permission level does John Smith have on the SharePoint site? Interviewee:  Me: are you still there? Interviewee: yes. Sorry. You would need to interview that person to ensure the application they are tied to and the workflow has the correct authentication.  Normally this is done in the business analysis area.  Me: uh... Ok. That was nice but it didn't answer the question. (I repeated the entire question).  Interviewe