> Well, if it's for a junior programmer they might not have a lot of design
> experience, so asking them to solve a coding problem working it out in front
> of you, and thinking out loud, will reveal a lot about how they think. So I
> wouldn't call this "stupid" (in fact I think that's uncalled for).
The tests are IMHO stupid because they:
1) could make you not pick the one you should because the daily work the hire
will do is different than writing little routines which are already in the
framework
2) could make you pick the wrong person because you think his string reversal
goo was excellent while he'll fail miserably designing some classes or writing
some basic OO code.
FB
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Discussion of advanced .NET topics.
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Frans Bouma
> Sent: Friday, September 21, 2007 8:41 AM
> To: ADVANCED-DOTNET@DISCUSS.DEVELOP.COM
> Subject: Re: [ADVANCED-DOTNET] interview test.....
>
> > OK...I know this isn't really a problem with dotnet....but I couldn't
> > think of a better place to ask...
> >
> > I've got to interview some people for the position of a junior
> > programmer....'Joel' test for C programmers would be one of
> >
> > 1. Reverse a string in place
> > 2. Reverse a linked list
> > 3. Count all the bits that are on in a byte
> > 4. Binary search
> > 5. Find the longest run in a string
> > 6. atoi
> > 7. itoa
>
> All these tests are stupid....
>
> <snipped>
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