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How much sample code to submit for interviews

I'm always confused when interviewers ask me to send some sample code. How many/what files should I send in order to show them my programming skill? ...

Correct Response For Questions Regarding Lack Of College Degree

I've managed to land two programming jobs so far with a partial college degree. One was an internship/co-op type position that turned full-time, while the other is contract work I've received mainly via circumstance. I have an interview forthcoming (my roommate works at the company) and they have already asked him why I have not complet...

Appropriate Footwear for An Interview

There's a raging debate going on at my house about appropriate footwear for an IT interview. I have an interview, on Thursday, for a SQL/C# developer with the Fraud dept. at a large accounting firm. I was planning on wearing what I have pretty much always worn for an interview: a nice suit, white shirt, subdued tie, and a pair of dress c...

Online interview quiz

I am currently interviewing for a developer role in my company and I have had a lot of poor candidates come in so far. One of the things we have discussed is providing an online test for the candidates to fill in. Has anyone ever used an online service like this? Even if the service charges a fee that is not a problem. I would prefer if...

Interview Questions for ActionScript 3 / Flex Programmer

What could be good question to decide if candidate has strong or atleast fair knowledge working with Flex and ActionScript. ...

how do you test a calculator?

How will you test a calculator? Any thoughts? thanks, === Sorry that I did not elaborate this question much at the beginning. Now, I want to give more backgrounds about this. This question was asked during a technical interview for a programmer position. So I suppose they were looking for some really "smart" answers or some good approa...

How do you screen candidates?

We have been interviewing for an entry level programmer for almost a year now. We just can't seem to find anyone that codes (and is entry level). They all have nice resumes but when we bring them in for an interview we end up wasting our time and theirs. We have even recently moved to changing the interview format to quit the intervie...

Interview Questions - What should be asked in a Phone Interview?

I am desperate for a way to screen my interview candidates (and weed out the incompetent). What I am really looking for is a good solid coder (entry level). But asking a user to code in a phone interview does not work out so well. (And we have been told by HR that we cannot use online screening tools.) What kind of phone interview qu...

i want c# programme to do this operation

IF 7 - 3 = 124 6 + 3 = 279 5 - 2 = 63 11 + 2 = 2613 Then, 15 - 3 =? ...

Performing Damage Control on Code Samples for an Interview?

While interviewing for a company, I was asked to submit several code samples that highlight my "best" work. I was pinged back with several questions regarding a specific code sample, one of which alluded to a bug. The code sample was a WCF Web service that uses AES to encrypt an opaque blob. The blob is used by the service to identify a...

What are good C# Problems to solve for practice?

I am still learning a lot of C#. And would like to hone my skills for future interviews. What are some simple C# problems to solve? The last interview I did had a pretty simple problem in it that I kind of struggled with, don't want that to happen again. ...

Questions to evaluate the technical competency of a business analyst type position

I am looking for a few solid phone screen friendly questions with proven success to evaluate the technical competency of a candidate for a BA type position. I require this candidate, who will function between development team and business side/customer, to understand the technical side of things adequately to push back as appropriate on...

I have a technical phone screen tomorrow; what sorts of questions should I prepare for? Specific to the language or general theory?

They gave me an idea of which languages I will be using (java, php, sql, php, python), but Im thinking the questions are going to be theory based. Does anyone have recent advice on this? ...

Junior Software Engineer (C++) Interview Advice

Hey guys.Tomorrow I have a phone interview with a good company for a Junior Software Engineer position. I have been out of the university with a bachelors for 3 months now, and am a bit rusty on my C++, as it has been a few semesters since I worked with it. I am currently reviewing it (working on pointers at the moment) to be prepared fo...

Junior Software Engineer (C++) Interview - Sample Program

Hey SO, I recently had two phone interviews for a Junior C++ Engineer position; the first was a general screening interview, the second a more technical one. So far the company has made it clear that while they do want you to be familiar with OOP, specifically knowing a ton of C++ is not required, for example if you mainly did Java, that...

C++ function to count all the words in a string

I was asked this during an interview and apparently it's an easy question but it wasn't and still isn't obvious to me. Given a string, count all the words in it. Doesn't matter if they are repeated. Just the total count like in a text files word count. Words are anything separated by a space and punctuation doesn't matter, as long as it...

C# coding interview preparation

Possible Duplicate: Looking for a few good C# interview problems. Hi All, I have done a good amount of reading in C# and have also practiced most of the data structures too. My source has been mostly msdn and few blogs. Interestingly, hardly anybody has asked me about data structures, optimization or their efficiency during a ...

A short programming puzzle

What could the possible explanation for the following puzzle : #include <stdio.h> int main(){ static char *s[] = {"black","white","yellow","violet"}; char *ptr[] = {s+3,s+2,s+1,s},***p; p = ptr; *++p; printf("%s",*--*++p + 3); } output. ...

Google Product Manager Interview Preparation, To the point

Hi, I have an interview for a product manager position at Google, I am a 4+ years of Experience Software Developer and an IT Entrepreneur having a start up. I am currently preparing for the interview, after googling around, I found that I will be asked in Product Management/Design, Problem Solving (Brain Teasers), some were asked tech...

Algorithm Interview Question

Hi all: I went to an interview today and here is the question: Suppose you have got 1 billion integers which are unsorted at one disk file,please find out the largest 100 numbers,try the best solution as you can. Anybody who has ideas,please do share! Thanks in advance! ...