I loved the article from Steve Yegge where he explains to get the most out of phone interviews Coding. The candidate has to write some simple code, with correct syntax, in C, C++, or Java. OO design. The candidate has to define basic OO concepts, and come up with classes to model a simple problem. Scripting and regexes. The candidate ...
My department is hiring a software engineering intern. Previously all of our employees have been cross-bred electronics engineers and "novice" programmers. Now we're actually building a software team and looking to start by getting someone familiar with C and C# (C++ is a plus). Seeing as this is a new position, none of us really know ...
Ever been in a situation where you were in an interview, and realized immediately afterwards (after the nervousness wore off) that you did something wrong? I had a phone interview today. I was asked an n-ary tree problem, and coded an algorithm that used a space overhead, then a different algorithm with no space overhead. However, my so...
Hi, I faced a telephonic interview recently and I was asked to write a program. The program is non-trivial to understand, but I am asked to write the program. I wrote the program and interviewer showed me bugs on some corner cases. I wish, I could have found the corner cases earlier. what does everyone do in this case. Thanks Bala ...
I am looking for a few solid phone screen friendly questions with proven success to evaluate the technical competency of a candidate for a BA type position. I require this candidate, who will function between development team and business side/customer, to understand the technical side of things adequately to push back as appropriate on...
In a list of countries that need to be displayed in an alphabetical order, you need to place United States at the top of the list. How will do you this? I answered by saying that I will have a table structure in such a way that the US is at id-0. The rest of the countries are listed in their alphabetical order. So when I fetch from the...
Your user wants a report sorted by date. This report is being created using C# and ODP.NET You do a sort on the Date column and the output is not exactly what the user expected. Upon some closer inspection, you find that the date column is a varchar2 field. The values in the column are stored in DD-MON-YY "01-JAN-10" format. How will ...
What's your approach to fetch static data in your windows form application? My approach is to load an arrayList with data when the user logs in. Then reuse this arraylist which will save round trips to the database. This means if you add something to static data, (a rare occasion), you will have to exit your windows forms application a...