Is asking a person to solve a problem by whiteboarding code a good practice for conducting interviews? Is this a good method for determining the qualifications of a candidate? What does this accomplish? Assuming the candidate has shown to sufficiently know the language in question, is whiteboarding code necessary? Might some developers ...
Like many other's I began programming at an early age. I started when I was 11 and I learned C when I was 14 (now 26). While most of what I did were games just to entertain myself I did everything from low level 2D graphics, and binary I/O, to interfacing with free API's, custom file systems, audio, 3D animations, OpenGL, web sites, et...
I can understand it is not directly programming related. But if you're learning or doing degree via e-learning method. Or to be precise Distance learning then is it counted by fellow programmers and HR's ? and interviewers ? Do e-learning degrees/certificates from Universities have any value in programming world ? and in recruitment ? ...
A question for all you interviewers/recruiters out there. How do you evaluate candidates at job interviews? How do you differentiate the good from the bad? (please, no "FizzBuzz" answers...) Which kind of questions do you feel that have the best results? Personally, I find that asking about all kind of .Net internals subjects usually pro...
i was asked the above question during one of my interviews. Although i answered that i will talk with each of the employees individually and try to make comfortable in the current position but still i think there may be a better answer for this question. The scenario is as follows: suppose i have 5 members in my team and my org is la...
I'm currently 19 and studying Bachelor of IT. Like any programmer I spend a lot of time pursuing pet projects. Some of them are based around promising ideas, some are just because I want to try them. Many projects end up on hold as more important things come up, or I come up with a better idea, and I feel a little guilty for pursuing it...
Hi, I have an interview for Software Engineering in QA Position role and wanted some pointer's from preparation point of view and also job description include technologies like XML, XSD, WSDL, and SOAP technologies and so what all topics should I put more stress during preparation process. I would really appreciate if someone can prov...
I have some knowledge (mostly forgotten) of a couple of non-mainstream languages, such as Prolog and Scheme. I definitely don't know/remember them well enough right now to pit on a resume, e.g. I would not be able to coherently answer questions from an interviewer about them. However, with a bit of reading up and remembering stuff, I cou...
So I went to an interview at Samsung here in Dallas, Texas. The way the recruiter described the job, he didn't make it sound like it was too math-oriented. The job basically involved graphics programming and C++. Yes, math is implied in graphics programming, especially shaders, but I still wasn't expecting this... The whole interview la...
I had this question: Given an unsorted array of positive integers and an integer N, return N if N existed in the array or the first number that is smaller than N. in an interview and wanted to know what would be the best efficient algorithm to solve it? I had given two approaches using hash and sorting array but it was not correct...
In these trying times I've been asking to dramatically reduce our costs associated with hiring developers. One of the ways we're hoping to do this is to stop flying candidates in until we're 98% sure we're going to hire them. To accomplish that goal, we're thinking about doing some of the interviews via webcam. Most of our interview pro...
Hi, Basic idea is to sort the strings and compare signature of strings, where signature is the alphabetically sorted string. What would be the efficient algorithm to do so ? Thanks. ...
Hello everybody, Been for an interview in regards to ETL Developer (Microsoft Toolset / SQL BI suite) - been success through technical interview - reference check done - all good. As the PM was not there during interview period, he wants to have another interview before finalising something. What normally PM interview questions are...
I am In a situation where for an interview I have been asked to code For half a day and create a web based gallery with tagging, search, uploading, rating and so on. I'm starting to worry that I can't possibly fulfill the requirements in the alloted time. Does this mean I'm not good enough or is it a test designed not to be beaten? Edit...
Hi, Recently, I am giving many interviews as Software Engineer, am pretty much comfortable with the technology side when it comes to answering questions like What are your Strength and What are your weakness, I have kind of hard time giving them answers. So my question is how can we handle questions like : What are your Strengths ?...
I had a interview today where they asked me to write two "C" functions, one to to extract a single bit and other to extract a range of bits from a character. I took a while and came up with these methods. int extractBit(char byte, int pos) { assert( (pos >= 0) && (pos < 8) ); return ( ( byte & (1<<pos) ) >> pos); } char extractB...
We have a university pretty close by and I'm thinking of trying to hire a student for a small and quite well defined coding project. I know that there will be some drawbacks (level of education, experience and time), but I'm hoping to find someone who is not quite fully set in his/her way of doing things and also might give me a new id...
Which is more important - Certifications Real time experience In a interview if you have to select a candidate from a list of 2 candidates then whom would you select the one with real time experience in that domain for say 4 years or the one with lots of certifications in that domain in his kitty but either 1 year or no experience...
Hi, My question is relevant to this post, "Dealbreakers for Programming job", which mentioned what are the kind of things you look while interviewing for job and there was one post of Employer paying less than market rate than one need to leave the job, now for Startups they do not pay market rate and so does it mean that we should not...
Hi, This question is somewhat related to other posts which I found on Stackoverflow but not exactly and so am prompted to ask about it. I know we must ask for Data-Structures and Algorithms but what specific data-structures or Algorithms or other CS Concepts should be asked while interviewing Sr. Software Engineering Fulltime Positio...