job-interview

SQL Server Developer

I have got one offer from MNC company for the post of SQL Server Developer. As such i am a programmer (in .net and SQL Server as back end).To crack the interview what topics i need to be aware of? (as there would be a difference in MS SQL used by programmer and a MS SQL Developer) Thanks! ...

place online to do shared coding for interview

I'm giving a phone interview soon, and ideally, I'd like to see the candidate write some code in real time. Can anyone suggest a site where we can both go and he can type while I watch. (I'm behind a fairly strict corporate firewall, so a lot of basic chat services are blocked.) ...

Is it wise to give your [stackoverflow] username to a potential employer?

This may be considered a meta question, if so please feel free to move it to the meta site, but I feel it doesn't match the requirements of the meta site because it's a general question about interviews that is applicable to any programmer applying for a job. The reason I am submitting this anonymously should also be evident. I recent...

Looking for practical(with computer) web client side exams (javascript, css)

Hi, I looking for practical(with computer) web client side exams (javascript, css) because I have 3 hours exam with javascript + css without internet only notepad+browser. I dont know if i will able to use JQUERY, I should prepare for use only regular javascript. (If you know good books or tutorial its may helps too). Edit: my ideas f...

Learn more about how .NET works

I just had a quick phone interview. The interviewer asked me a few questions like: How does C# work? What is the CLR and what does it do? What is C# code converted to? Other than the CLR question (for which I gave a very vague answer), I didn't know the answers. There were a few others related to .NET that I don't remember, but I did...

What to do when the interview questions seem too easy

I've gone into a few interviews for supposedly senior positions where I was asked to complete tasks that seem utterly simplistic to me. I sometimes walk out of the interview feeling like I've not been given the opportunity to demonstrate the depth of my knowledge. Can anyone offer advice on what you might do in this situation? ...

PHP interview practical test

I've been asked to prepare a practical exam to be used in interviews for a Junior PHP Developer role. I'm all out of ideas – what is considered junior? Initial ideas were to create a simple email form, which tested skills in html, CSS and jQuery – but the PHP part is mostly a cut and paste job. Any ideas? ...

My own blog - is it a good idead?

I have few years of software development experience in classic vb, asp to ASP.net and vb.net. And at this moment exploring F# and MVC, Windows phone 7 in my spare time because my company is unlikely going to use this technologies in near future it doesn't take long time to understand and become relatively knowledgeable in these new tec...

Meaning of SQL-code in reviewed code

I need review some code of test-application written in PHP/MySQL. Author of this code wrote three SQL-queries. I can't understand, if he meant here some performace optimization? DB::fetch("SELECT COUNT( * ) AS count, `ip`,`datetime` FROM `logs` WHERE `datetime` > ('2006-02-03' - INTERVAL 10 DAY) GROUP BY `ip` ORDER BY `datetime` DESC...

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...

how to make sure that a file will be closed at the end of the run

Suppose someone wrote a method that opens a certain file and forgets to close it in some cases. Given this method, can I make sure that the file is closed without changing the code of the original method? The only option I see is to write a method that wraps the original method, but this is only possible if the file is defined outside t...

What a tester need to do when he found a bug and the dev does not want to fix it – and it is important.

Interview question. Please help what the tester need to do? ...

Good questions to determine a candidate's level of C# and t-SQL knowledge?

Possible Duplicate: Good C# Interview Questions for a Senior Dev Position What questions would you ask, specifically? If you were looking for a candidate with "strong t-SQL and C#" skills. The position is not a senior position, but requires an experienced web developer. What knowledge would you be looking for? ...

How should I prepare myself to work on social-media developer jobs ?

I am a J2EE developer who has worked only in apps that "take input data - store in db - retrieve the same and display" types of application. To move to social media kind of development job, what skills/technologies should I develop ? ...

Interview question please help

How would you test a ‘Mobile’ version of IM? What are some key differences between testing this version versus a desktop application? ...

Standing out from the crowd when applying job

Because of the economic crises in this country, getting job has been more difficult. Because of that I am looking for good suggestions for ways to build a portfolio on a hobby basis, so that I can show it on a possible interview. Type of job I'm looking for is basically IT consultant / system administrator area. I’m not sure what of s...

What are some good interview questions for mid-level developers involving ASP.NET MVC?

I have to do some interviewing for mid-level Software Engineer positions and our team uses ASP.NET MVC. Some candidates have experience with the technology and others do not. For the ones that do, we'd like to gauge their expertise. We have come up with some of our own questions, but thought the community might have some good perspective...

Where will the record get inserted first?

I have a schema called "CUSTOMERS". In this schema there is a table called RECEIVABLES. There is another schema called "ACCOUNTS". In this schema, there is a table called RECEIVABLES_AC. RECEIVABLES_AC has a public synoym called RECEIVABLES. The table structure of both the tables is exactly the same. If your front-end uses the custom...

Clarifying questions in testing interview

Hi, Should I ask questions to interviewer to fully understand the functional and non-funtional requirements of a product if interviewer asks me to test that product and does not specify any other detail? For example, if interviwer asks me to test a Search Button – should I ask the following questions: How fast the user should be able ...

Are questions about video-games valid interview questions (and does anyone actually use them)?

In a recent discussion with a group of like minded software developers, we realized that, amongst other things, we all shared a similar depth of knowledge when it comes to video-games - both in terms of judging quality, and in terms of awareness of the landscape. While we may not agree on our own personal favorites, we were incredibly co...