My company is about to hire .NET developers. We work on a variety of .NET platforms: ASP.NET, Compact Framework, Windowsforms, Web Services. I'd like to compile a list/catalog of good questions, a kind of minimum standard to see if the applicants are experienced. So, my question is: What questions do you think should a good .NET program...
Curious to get people's thoughts. I conduct frequent interviews, and have had enough in my career to reflect on them, and I've noticed a broad array of questions. I made this c++ specific, but it's worth noting that I have had people ask me algorithmic complexity questions over the phone, and I don't even mean what is the complexity of a...
I suffer from bad test anxiety and when it comes to programming tests in interviews I do horrendously. A few months ago I interviewed with a company I was interning at and bombed pretty bad, i.e. it took me a while to solve a simple linked list problem because I was so nervous. For those of you who have done interviewing, do (or have) ...
I wonder whether are language specific tests good for selecting potential candidates? Questions such as Javascript's Syntax .Net API( What class to use if you want to send email via Microsoft Outlook) Specific SQL queries ( What's the difference between inner join and join?) ASP.NET ( What event/ method is executed before/after Page_...
We have had many questions for interviewers to ask interviewees. But none addressing information flow in the other direction, interviewee to interviewer. Just an indirect question about "deal breakers" and one about "finding dream jobs". What I'm after is when you're interviewing at a company do you have a set of questions that you like...
I am getting ready to add another developer to my team and I want to try and fix the mistakes I made in my last hiring cycle. I like to think of myself as a competent programmer (I can be given a project, I can deliver on that project and the deliverable work with very few if any bugs) and so I ask questions that I would ask myself in a...
I'm sure most of us know about the joel test by now. I've got an interview with a company that claims to score a 12 on the Joel test. I see it this way: if I were to put something on my resume, I would expect to be quizzed on it by my interviewer. Thus, I think that it's fair for me to verify that they implement all 12 portions of th...
I recently posted one of my favourite interview whiteboard coding questions in "What's your more controversial programming opinion", which is to write a function that computes Pi using the Leibniz formula. It can be approached in a number of different ways, and the exit condition takes a bit of thought, so I thought it might make an in...
Hi Techies, I recently gave a interview to one of the TOP software company. I was completely stuck with only one question asked by interviewer to me, which was Q. I have a machine with 512 mb / 1 GB RAM and I have to sort a file (XML, or any) of 4 GB size. How will I proceed? What will be the data structure, and which sorting algorith...
I'm specifically talking about interviewing for a position for a very experienced and competent C++/C#/Java systems developer, not a html, javascript web developer position. In my experience nervousness is often not a good indicator, because many good developers get very nervous under pressure, so what is a good indicator? Hmmm... so...
Dear all i am looking for an half finished .net application to test my .net c# applicants. As I come from a differnt coding background, it is difficult for me to assess people skills hence a great test would do a good job! Regarding checking candidates' test performance, I can ask a friend, no problem ! Does a practical test exist out...
This is a good one because it's so counter-intuitive: Imagine an urn filled with balls, two-thirds of which are of one color and one-third of which are of another. One individual has drawn 5 balls from the urn and found that 4 are red and 1 is white. Another individual has drawn 20 balls and found that 12 are red and 8 are white. Whi...
I am preparing for an interview with Google (Mountain View) I was wondering if anybody could share some of the questions and experiences. I have been told that they ask both brain teasers and coding/algorithm questions this time ...
Duplicate: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/449595/google-interview-questions I'm preparing for a "Google style" job interview. I expect questions on C++/OOP, data structures and algorithms, and perhaps relational databases. There are lots of sources to help with preparation, I'll name the ones that I'm using. I'd like other su...
Can somebody point me to a good interview question repository for java/j2ee programming and architect position? ...
Are aptitude tests any sign of one's ability to program? I did one which was "designed" to answer whether or not I am able to work with computers and I failed. However, I've had a programming job and I coped with the demands on me without any problem. This test was things like "if P is on top of Q, but O is below Q and above X, etc etc...
Pretend you're at an interview. The interviewer asks: What is the decimal value of this binary number? 10110101 What is the first thing you responsed with? ...
There are a set of questions that seem to be commonly-used in interviews and classes when it comes to object-oriented design and analysis. This is one of them; unfortunately, my OOP professor in college never actually gave an answer to it, and so I've been wondering. The problem is as follows: design a basic set of objects/methods to be...
If you were developing software to solve a Rubik's Cube, how would you represent the cube? ...
As an sort of extension to my query about questions to ask an interviewer, I was wondering about what sorts of questions can you ask a manager? I mean for the newly appointed manager who'll now be your boss. What can you ask him during the usual familiarisation one-on-one meetings to get a feel for their coding mindset, abilities, etc.?...