What should every WPF developer know? Entry Level Strong .NET 2.0 Background & willing to learn! Explain dependency properties? What's a style? What's a template? Binding Differences between base classes: Visual, UIElement, FrameworkElement, Control Visual vs Logical tree? Property Change Notification (INotifyPropertyChange and Observ...
Hi, I've been asked to screen some candidates for a MySQL DBA / Developer position for a role that requires an enterprise level skill set. I myself am a SQL Server person so I know what I would be looking for from that point of view with regards to scalability / design etc but is there anything specific I should be asking with regards ...
Hey StackOverflow-ers, I'm a student in software engineering in Montreal. For the last 3 years I've had a few interships (once per year). The first two (in the same company) were mostly sysadmin jobs, but I did get to do a few Perl programs (mostly log file analysing and statistics generation). My other intership was in the IT security...
I see a lot of discussions about what kinds of questions people ask when hiring programmers (eg. see here), but I'm wondering about the reverse: As the interviewee, what kinds of questions do you ask your potential employer to find out if it will be a good place for you, the passionate programmer, to work and grow? In particular, I'm c...
What process do you use to recruit programmers? we have a multi stage interview process... Pre interviews... Resume review..... then if they are interesting :- stage 1: come have a chat, talk about what you have done, discuss the position, dig a bit into they approach software development stage 2: Coding Test Stage 3: Generally disc...
I am an engineer with c, c++ back ground. And am mostly interested to work in data structures and algorithms kind of work. So, obviously asked those kind of questions? Is there any best resource where can I found the best interview questions? Like to know sites/books: which discuss about general or HR kind of questions? which discuss ab...
I am planning to apply for Google? What kind of questions is asked by Google? How to crack it? Can you suggest some books, interview questions etc etc to crack the Google? And BTW, I will be honest and I will be myself. But, still need some more guidance to step towards the dream.. ...
How would you answer this question: "What are your weakness points?". I always find this question difficult to answer. ...
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...
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...
Tomorrow I am interviewing a person for the Job as Software developer. What questions should I ask him? Should I ask him to write some sample code ? ...
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? ...
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? ...
Hi, I was wondering what programming exercises people thought would make good training exercises to get junior developers up to speed. In the past I have used a DAG (directed acyclic graph) as a programming exercise, as I find this is a really good way to introduce new developers to test first development, OOP and collections. (This a...
So, right now I am hunting for consultants for two technologies I have knowledge about but no experience in. I have put ads on Craigslist as these are two small tasks and most likely the larger firms wont want to be bothered and will charge an arm and a leg. How do I verify that these guys are on the up and up? That the work they are s...
Anybody have any good FizzBuzz type questions that are not the FizzBuzz problem? I am interviewing someone and FB is relatively well known and not that hard to memorize, so my first stop in a search for ideas is my new addiction SO. ...
Many job listings for programming positions ask you to send a resume and "Salary Requirements" or "Salary Expectations" right at the start. I do kind of know what I need to live on, and what I'd actually prefer to make. Should I list a range? Should I ignore that piece when I send my resume? Should I say that my salary requirements are...
Why are you working where you are right now? Specifically, how did you go from offer to acceptance? I have found that it is pretty difficult to figure out how to analyze a new company and I'm looking for some advice. My current choice was heavily influenced by a former mentor of mine. Yet, I'll probably need to be my own man soon eno...
So I just interviewed two people today, and gave them "tests" to see what their skills were like. Both are entry level applicants, one of which is actually still in college. Neither applicant saw anything wrong with the following code. I do, obviously or I wouldn't have picked those examples. Do you think these questions are too harsh...
For all of you that read candidates' sample code: Please provide some examples of what people are looking for when they ask this. Most of the code I've written in my professional life (C#, Java, PHP) has been pretty domain specific, and I rarely run across something I have to solve using things I learned while earning my computer scien...