Yesterday I took part in an interview for a Java position in a company and one of the questions was Does Java pass by reference or by value? In the heat of the moment I (mistakenly) confidently said it passed by reference, possibly because I come from a C/C++ background. Unfortunately after the interview I'd realised my terrible ...
Consider you are in an interview for a .NET/C# job, and are asked: What is Silverlight, in one sentence? EDIT: OK, some took it the funny way:-) I have accepted one of the more serious approaches though. However, thanks to all posters. ...
Hello everybody It's really dream to be programmer for me.So i always wanted to be .I had so small knowledges from commodore basic which i couldn't figure out anything in it .Then i tried to learn Visual basic 6 by myself and result wasn't good as i expected because i even didn't understand classes.Then i left to learning programming an...
I recently had a phone job interview with a 1 hour Programming practical. It had two questions on it and I know I answered one completely correct and got most of the second correct. Should I worry about getting the Job just based on that? The actual phone job interview went very well and they told me that I answered their questions well ...
I've taken programming as a hobby, studying it since I was 10 or so. 7 years to date, I've become progressivly good at C++, PHP, C#, Assembly, Lua, and the web languages such as HTML and CSS. Though I've never taken a class, I've been able to complete most, if not all of the questions from different "Programmer Interview Questions" artic...
Possible Duplicates: Any good resource for java interview questions ? Questions every good Java/J2EE Developer should be able to answer? What are some good Java interview questions for a web application developer? ...
Possible Duplicate: Interview Q: given an array of numbers, return array of products of all other numbers (no division) I came across an interview task/question that really got me thinking ... so here it goes: You have an array A[N] of N numbers. You have to compose an array Output[N] such that Output[i] will be equal to mul...
Hey guys, I have couple of interviews coming up for internships at google,ms, and etc. So I am wondering what are some good sites to use to prepare and brush up on my knowledge. Thanks ...
I am a software developer with 10+ years commercial experience, I am comfortable with nearly all of imperative languages. But I realized that most of employers prefer not candidates who is able to deliver good software but those who is trained to answer questions like "what are ten differences between pointers and references in C++" or "...
I just moved back to Europe from the US after living there for 7 years. Apart from major adjustment issues, I'm currently looking for a job over here. I'm mainly interested in (IT) Consulting and, since these jobs typically require programming knowledge, such as Java, I'm trying to think of something productive to write (perhaps to demo ...
I am about to conduct some interviews for a new role at our company and would like to know if there is an industry standard assessment test or organisation that provides this. I recall writing an entry test a few years ago that had an acronym as a name, but I cannot remember what it was. Thanks. ...
I have a job interview coming that will focus on T-SQL and general SQL competency. Any suggestions on how to prepare for this? ...
We're looking to hire a business intelligence developer - knowledgeable in SSAS, SSRS, data warehousing, etc. My job in the interview process will be specifically to vet the candidate on SQL Reporting Services. Assuming a 60 minute interview, what sort of questions or challenges might be effective in determining a developer's level of k...
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...
Lets say there is a base class pointer which is pointing to a base class object: baseclass *bptr; bptr= new baseclass; now if i do bptr= new derived; what is the problem here? ...
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...
Note: This was an interview question and may not have an actual use case currently The question was to design a class that can store numbers which are very very large say each number can have 100 digits. This new class is a datatype like int. What are the different types of constructors, overloads and other functions that you would wri...
If you were tasked with hiring some new programmers for your business, and had the choice to only pick from one of the approaches listed below, what approach would you take and why? Approach 1: Asking several question about the syntax of a particular language that can be looked up in a book. You know, questions like what is the diffe...
I have a job interview late next week as a report developer. At this point it sounds much more interesting than what I am doing now (customer support) and pays better as well. I have some of the software that they use, and I was wondering if it looks professional if I make some reports off of some sample data and bring it with me to th...
I am tasked with hiring some new programmers for my software business, and need to solidity on an interview approach. I have been thinking about one of two approaches and have listed them below. Does anyone have any advice on which approach might produce better results? Approach 1: Asking several question about the syntax of a particu...