Good luck on the new job. You could be doing alot worst things than writing
asp.net pages. I really like the concept of .Net, specially when it comes
I just spent the last few months being unemployed and interviewing. I sure
wish I had one of you guys interview me!
I ended up over at Microsoft several times standing at a white board
trying to solve puzzles with C++ code.
I'm not the best puzzle solver (especially in the pressure of an
interview), so I didn't get hired. But, it was no fun.
I love programming in MFC, but there just weren't a lot of MFC positions
out there to apply for.
I eventually got hired on at a company to write some MFC tools, but as my
first assignment with them, I'm making
an ASP.NET based intranet web-site. Go figre!
Oh well, at least I'm learning some new stuff and everyone here is great
to work with.
On a side-note, I liked to ask questions like:
What is the concept of a virtual list control?
What are the ramifications of the base class destructor is not virtual.
What issues do you consider when you want to use multi-threading in a MFC
application? (generates some discussion).
And, my coding question.
Write a method that returns true if the input is a Palindrome.
bool IsPalindrome(LPCTSTR pszText); // A toyota's a toyota
When they write code, I look for UNICODE awareness and 64-bit awareness.
When solving the problem, I mostly look to see if they come up with a good
approach, rather than if their solution is perfect, that's what debugging
is for.
Leo.
"Brian Muth" <bmuth@mvps.org> wrote in message
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I agree more with Tom.
I really don't think your test is very effective. I'd throw it out.
Imagine you are interested in interviewing for a chemist. You could ask
"What is the atomic weight of Zirconium?" Yes, if they just walked out of
the lab, they might happen to know the answer. But they may still be an
excellent chemist if they don't know. If you pass on candidates who don't
answer your test questions, you probably are passing over some excellent
programmers.
We have a short quiz in our interviews as well. But it's very generic.
Questions are like this:
"Choosing any programming language, show me how you would reverse all the
characters in a string"
"Discuss the various ways you could share a variable between two running
processes".
I'm interested in how a candidate approaches a problem. Stuff like
CStringArray and DDX can be taught to a smart employee.
Brian