interview-questions

What is an example of "this" assignment in C#?

Does anybody have useful example of "this" assignment inside a C# method? I have been asked for it once during job interview, and I am still interested in answer myself. Thank you! ...

Good C# Interview Questions for a Senior Dev Position

I know there have been a great deal of interview questions posted on SO, however I wondered what sort of questions people here ask at C# interviews, interviewing for a senior developer position. In order to keep this in line with SO principles, please provide a list of questions (or a single question) rather than discussion. ...

Any good interview questions to ask prospective Junior java developers?

Does anyone have a good interview question to ask prospective junior java developers? They will have a two year minimum experience requirement. The questions will be on a written test and they will have five to ten minutes to answer each question. Limit to one interview question per response for voting purposes please. ...

What are your weakness points?

How would you answer this question: "What are your weakness points?". I always find this question difficult to answer. ...

Should you administer IQ tests to programmers during the interview process?

How many companies are using IQ tests to rate prospective programmers? How would you weight an IQ test vs. education, experience, etc.? Are there any legal issues that come into play with this kind of thing? Is there an industry standard test? [Edit] WOW, I wasn't expecting such a strong response against the idea. I guess a big r...

Job Interview questions - The ones you should ask the company

I am sure there are lots of people who ask the question, "What have you been asked at interview?". I want to turn this on its head and ask the community what question do you wish you had asked the interviewer before accepting, or not, a role. I am sure there are many circumstances where a sensible question asked at interview would have...

What are some essential software architect interview questions?

I've seen some good questions and answers on here regarding developer interview questions, but what software architects and systems architects? I'm looking for a few essential questions that you feel every software and/or systems architect must know. ...

Interview with a CEO

What kind of interview should I expect when I have an interview for a senior position, and the interview will be held by the company's CEO? ...

What is the hardest technical question you have had to answer in an interview?

Different companies use different technical questions to try and figure out who the good programmers are. What is the hardest technical question or problem you have ever had to solve in an interview? ...

Good example of use of AppDomain

I keep getting asked about AppDomains in interviews, and I know the basics: they are an isolation level within an application (making them different from applications) they can have threads (making htem different from threads) exceptions in one appdomain do not affect another appdomains cannot access each other's memory each appdomain...

Controlled set of technical interview questions

When answering this question about interview questions I answered with the following: As a suggeston, make up a developer interview document that contains your set of questions. For each question allow: a section to write their responses, a section containing crib notes to remind you of the answer, or points that should be covered in ...

How to check my byte flag?

I use a byte to store some flag like : 10101010 and I would like to know how to verify that a specific bit is at 1 or 0. ...

Why are 'out' parameters in .Net a bad idea?

I was recently asked this, but had no real answer besides it simply unnecessarily complicating an application. What other reasons are there? ...

Interview questions for Flash developers

For an interview in a few, I'm not at all familiar with Flash development. What would you ask? ...

Whiteboard Interview Questions

I teach a software engineering lab class for Seniors in Computer Science and Engineering (Bachelor's degree). I understand that many companies have interviewees solve simple programming problems on a whiteboard or piece of paper. I would like to prepare my students for this as they do not normally have to stand in front of a judgmental ...

What is your single most effective interview question?

What single question, more than any other, enables you to sort the wheat from the chaff when interviewing developers? ...

What does this do? tasklist /m "mscor*"

Saw this question here : What Great .NET Developers Ought To Know (More .NET Interview Questions) ...

What do you ask at an interview for a QA position?

There are a ton of questions on this site about interview questions for programmers, but what about QA engineers? How can I make sure I'm getting somebody who really knows how to put test plans together and execute them? How much in the way of technical skills should I demand? I've worked with a few testers before who knew basic SQL, ...

Is it worth to require strong data-mining skills from employees?

After I have a small discussion in comments to my recent answer, I decided to ask community: Is it worth to require strong data-mining skills from employees? I think that ability to quick find information is one of the most important skills now days. Would you require employee to demonstrate such skill? On 99% of programmers in...

Write a program in 30 minutes (for a C# programmer candidate interview question).

Smart interviewers for positions that require programming ability actually get applicants to write a short program, equipping them with PC etc. However what should the test program do as a reasonable test with a time limit of about 30 minutes. [Answers should be the required program specification.] If you are an interviewer, what do yo...