Hello Where I live, job adverts are without range of earning that interviewee can expect. So during interview I have to say how much I want to earn - which is risky, while demanding too much will end the interview, and if I say small number - I can work for half of others pay. What is key to know how much could I ask that will satisfy ...
I am a Junior Engineer with under a year experience, primarily as a UI developer. We have a former Lead Programmer who just got laid off who is interviewing at our company, and I am one of the people interviewing him. He has almost 25 years of experience, so obviously it will be pointless to ask him technical questions. As a junior prog...
I am getting a phone interview for an automated test analyst internship position at a bank. What questions would you think I would be asked? ...
I recently had a interview, and when I walked out of there I realised that 2 of the 3 interviewers had made up their minds before I walked into the interview. I had a 20 minute session with the development manager that went really well. Then I had a session with an architect and a BA. The BA only asked me questions about my CV regarding ...
Has anyone interviewed for an internship at Google? This is for a BS level position. How was your experience? How would you compare it to interviews at other companies like Microsoft, Facebook, Amazon, etc? I have a pretty good grasp of CS fundamentals -- the essential/common algorithms and data structures. Any tips? Oh yeah, I've read ...
Our company has been thinking about scrapping our interview procedures and bringing each candidate in for a 4-5 hours sit-down with some of the programmers and just do some pair programming. I like the idea in theory but I am not sure how you can really make it fair for each candidate. How would you rate them? Wouldn't their input real...
I'm a lifelong hobbyist hacker, who'd like to become a paid, professional programmer, I first cut my chops on QBasic, on a 386, at a tender age, but I've never programmed in a professional capacity, have no professional certifications, and got a liberal arts B.A. I'd say (in all modesty) that I have a expert level understanding of UNIX ...
I had two interviews during the last two weeks, one of them was about 30 minutes, and they had me fill out a job application before it, and the other one was less than 10 minutes! In your own point of view, how much time do you need to interview a .NET developer with almost 2 years experience? ...
Lately I was thinking about job interviews. Most of time you can see information about how to look for a employer, how much you can earn or what do you look for in new employer and how to show from your best side. My concern is slightly different. You go to job interview to a employer you would like to work for next 1 or 2 years (or mor...
At present I am into a very good organization. I am planning to shift because I am not happy with the work that I am getting now. I want to work under a different Manager, but my Manager and team is more dependent on me. I tried so many times, but couldn't change my team. So, I started planning to switch my company. Everyone is asking ...
Is there any way for a C++ programmer with 1,5 years of experience to have no idea that null-terminated strings exist as a concept and are widely used in a variety of applications? Is this a sign that he is potentially a bad hire? ...
My latest contract project successfully concluded a couple of weeks ago, and I've been pounding the job sites looking for new work. It's been six or seven years since I last really looked at these sites, so maybe the phrase, ".NET Programmer," or variants, has come to mean something. But, danged if I know what! My primary language is C#...
At our company, we are looking for good Java programmers, that the one and only requirement and that's written in our job advertisement. Since we need more people to handle all the work that's coming up, within this and the next year, we want to hire people. The problem is, most of the candidates are not as good as we want them to be. Ma...
Hi all, Could you guys please recommend some good Java books which are good to read before you go to an interview. Ideally the book would cover a lot of core java, including tricky stuff. So books along the line of Java Puzzlers is what I am looking for. If you got any books to recommend for other areas like SQL, Design Patterns or any...
I have an interview for a Python job tomorrow through a personal connection. The thing is, I don't actually know Python although I've written a few programs and hacked around with Django and some other Python frameworks without really knowing what I was doing. An interview is a different matter. I'm planning on learning Python today even...
A question I got on my last interview: Design a function f, such that: f(f(n)) == -n Where n is a 32 bit signed integer; you can't use complex numbers arithmetic. If you can't design such a function for the whole range of numbers, design it for the largest range possible. Any ideas? ...
Design a function f such that: f(f(x)) == 1/x Where x is a 32 bit float Or how about Given a function f, find a function g such that f(x) == g(g(x)) See Also Interview question: f(f(n)) == -n ...
I have a phone screening with Facebook scheduled next week. What kind of questions might they ask? ...
In an interview a while ago for a .NET position the interviewer asked me "what would you use a private interface for?". I asked him did he mean the difference between implicit vs explicit interface implementation to which he answered no. So I'm wondering: What he meant? What you would use a private interface for? ...
background info... When interviewing candidates we do the usual round up of questions (both coding and not) and we follow with a particular scenario where we ask the interviewee to code a given problem. We then follow the work with such questions as why did you do this, why not this, how would you handle the exception here, why did you...