Does anyone think it is silly for interviewers to expect potential Software Engineers specializing in application development or UI to know hexadecimal arithmetic? ...
I have a Phone interview coming up next with with a company which works in financial software industry. The interview is mainly going to be in C++ and problem solving and logic. Please tell me the method of preparation for this interview. I have started skimming through Thinking in C++ and brushing up the concepts. Is there any other way...
Interview question- Often its pretty easier to debug a program once you have trouble with your code.You can put watches,breakpoints and etc.Life is much easier because of debugger. But how to debug a program without a debugger? One possible approach which I know is simply putting print statements in your code wherever you want ...
Maybe this question has been asked although I didn't find the answer. I am going to attend an interview for a test lead. can you tell me the pattern of questions I will have to face other than the normal question that I was facing previously like What is Software testing? What is Bug life cycle? or Grilling me on my project experience....
Were you asked any logic riddles in job interviews? Are you usually asking riddles in job interviews? What are they, and what are the answers? I was asked once how can you divide evenly 5 apples to 6 people without dividing any apple to 1/6 (or 1/12 or 1/18 etc.). (Would love to hear answers in the comments, I'm not sure my answer was ...
When interviewing entry level developers, I have used the FizzBuzz question as a type of acid test. Generally, I ask for a solution in pseudo-code or any language of their choice. If someone can't answer this question -- or get reasonably close, the interview generally ends shortly thereafter and we don't progress to more interesting c...
Sorry if the question already has been discussed, I failed to find the discussion. And after all, this is friday. Feel free to close:). If the employer asks you to show your (any) previous production code without or before or instead of detailed interview with predefined tasks - how should we reply? of course it's not about confidential...
I'm doing some job interviews for the first time for my replacement. I want to know how they would approach a brownfields project, but am not really sure how to phrase the question. I'd like to know what their attitude is: e.g. throw out and rewrite, use a tool to refactor, step through the code and understand, what books they've read (...
What questions do you think are fair to ask in an interview? The position is for an entry level developer, probably right out of college. Hiring managers: What are the fallback questions you typically use and why do you think they are affective? Developers: Are there any questions you have been asked which you really enjoyed while ...
I recently applied for a developer position and the director there asked me to send some samples of code. How should I approach this? Once, I sent a sample of code that I wrote for myself to a company and they didn't get back. This time, I want to be prepared and send appropriate samples. I want to know what I should send them, create ...
Today there was a question on SO, where the author was given an NP-complete problem during an interview and he obviously hadn't been told that it was one. What is the purpose of asking such questions? What behavior does the interviewer expect when asking such things? Proof? Useful heuristics? And is it even legitimate to ask one if ...
Doing the interview round at present, and one place had a 'small test' for candidates. We were asked to write a requirements doc, specs, design doc, test plan, as well as code and build a small web app with database backend, document the tests, and be required to demo it at a future interview. I did some estimates and figured a week if...
Given a 10 digit Telephone Number, we have to print all possible strings created from that. The mapping of the numbers is the one as exactly on a phone's keypad. i.e. for 1,0-> No Letter for 2-> A,B,C So for example, 1230 ADG BDG CDG AEG.... Whats the best solution in c/c++ to this problem? ...
I'm conducting an interview in 45 min (my second ever!) for a candidate who's pretty junior and states she knows VB and C#. I do not have any experience in either of those languages. Does anyone have any good simple interview questions for these languages that I can ask that will be informative without being too intimidating? Note: I'...
What Big-O notation questions have you been asked? Did you find them to be good questions? Did the interviewer actually understand the concept? ...
In recent interviews I have been asking candidates to code through some questions on the whiteboard. I don't feel I'm getting a clear enough picture of the candidates technical ability with this approach. Granted, the questions might not be good enough, maybe the interview needs to be longer, etc, but I'm wondering if a different appro...
Any advice on solving this problem? ...
I'm a seasoned web developer but only have a modicum of Ruby/Rails experience. I just got an interview Monday at a Ruby shop, they do realize I don't have much Ruby experience. Besides 2 or 3 Ruby books I have lying around, what other resources might I avail myself of for a weekend crash course in Ruby. I do have a bare minimum accoun...
Imagine the scenario: you are unemployed and you get an interview. During the interview you say you are not working in any company at the moment but you are working on personal dev projects. As the title says, I just want to know if companies take it in consideration or just may think "he's saying that because is not working". Even if...
I am currently looking for entry level .NET developer positions, and I was contacted by a company today that wants to schedule a "Programmer's Logic Test" that is mainly sequence logic and math but no coding. What is the best way to prepare for such a test, if there is a best way? ...