On 9/29/07, Brett McCoy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 9/29/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > but i think which interviewer would like to ask such questions. > > he must be asking about how good you are in writing a programme > > I don't think such questions are at all good for asking on an > interview. It has nothing to do with good programming, and I'd be > quite put off if an interviewer asked me such a question
This point has been raised previously (a while back) - I postulated at the time that I'd use such a question as an opportunity to walk out of the interview since the company is using such stupid questions and clearly has No Idea[tm], the reply back was 'but they [companies] all use them'. I shook my head at that. -- PJH "Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital" -- Aaron Levenstein
