My advice, give the candidates problems and see how they solve them.
Even if they don't finish, you get an idea of how they think.
tedd
I like this idea!
Do you expect them to be able to work with code written by others? If
so, hand them some of your existing code (good examples and not so
To refine that a bit, you may want to give them some code that has
been intentionally broken (simple things for the entry level
position, such as missing semicolons or curly braces etc) and watch
to see how they go about discovering the parse errors. To me, it
would be better to hire
Please reply to the list.
jekillen wrote:
On Jul 19, 2006, at 8:31 AM, John Nichel wrote:
We're looking to hire an entry level php programmer here, and I've
been tasked with writing the test to evaluate the potential
candidates. Being the lazy guy that I am, I naturally turned to Google
to
Finner, Doug wrote:
My advice, give the candidates problems and see how they solve them.
Even if they don't finish, you get an idea of how they think.
tedd
I like this idea!
Do you expect them to be able to work with code written by others? If
so, hand them some of your existing code
John Nichel wrote:
What does $_POST['x'] mean?
What does $ in front of a string of chars without quotes mean?
That does register globals mean?
Is it possible to run php as a cgi script?
When it is necessary to use 'var' in php
code?
I would probably agree that a problem would be better.
On Thursday 20 July 2006 07:23, John Nichel wrote:
Yeah, one of my earliest thoughts on this was to have them write
something simple like connecting to a db, selecting multiple rows,
parsing our the result, and displaying it in some fashion.
Don't forget making it secure. Here is one of my
Ray Hauge wrote:
On Thursday 20 July 2006 07:23, John Nichel wrote:
Yeah, one of my earliest thoughts on this was to have them write
something simple like connecting to a db, selecting multiple rows,
parsing our the result, and displaying it in some fashion.
Don't forget making it secure.
Ray Hauge wrote:
Don't forget making it secure. Here is one of my questions people can use if
they like. Feel free to re-word it. I'm a programmer, not a writer ;)
What change(s) would you make to the following code to make it more secure?
$id = $_GET['id'];
mysql_query(“DELETE FROM
On Thu, 2006-07-20 at 09:19, Jochem Maas wrote:
Ray Hauge wrote:
On Thursday 20 July 2006 07:23, John Nichel wrote:
Yeah, one of my earliest thoughts on this was to have them write
something simple like connecting to a db, selecting multiple rows,
parsing our the result, and displaying it
Subject: Re: [PHP] Basic PHP knowledge test
Finner, Doug wrote:
My advice, give the candidates problems and see how they solve them.
Even if they don't finish, you get an idea of how they think.
tedd
I like this idea!
Do you expect them to be able to work with code written by others? If
so
On Wednesday 19 July 2006 10:31, John Nichel wrote:
We're looking to hire an entry level php programmer here, and I've been
tasked with writing the test to evaluate the potential candidates.
Being the lazy guy that I am, I naturally turned to Google to see if I
could find some tests that I
We're looking to hire an entry level php programmer here, and
I've been
tasked with writing the test to evaluate the potential candidates.
Being the lazy guy that I am, I naturally turned to Google to
see if I
could find some tests that I could use. After clicking thru
many links,
Does anyone have any links/resources for a
basic php knowledge test? If not, I'll have to
write one from scratch myself, and mess up the
rest of my day of goofing off/sleeping.
It wouldn't hurt to pick up one of those Zend PHP Certification study guides
and pull some things from there.
Jim Moseby wrote:
stock answer
STFW! RTFM!! STFA!! STFU!!
/stock answer
That totally goes against my being lazy. Hell, I didn't get to where I
am today by *not* exploiting the 'little people' :-p
--
John C. Nichel IV
Programmer/System Admin (ÜberGeek)
Dot Com Holdings of Buffalo
Ray Hauge wrote:
On Wednesday 19 July 2006 10:31, John Nichel wrote:
We're looking to hire an entry level php programmer here, and I've been
tasked with writing the test to evaluate the potential candidates.
Being the lazy guy that I am, I naturally turned to Google to see if I
could find some
On Wednesday 19 July 2006 11:12, John Nichel wrote:
Yeah, reading the writing on the wall, I think I'm just going to have to
suck it up, and write it. The worst part of it is, I'm going to have to
be involved in the interview process, and I'm *not* a people person. ;)
I think I'll go with a
On 7/19/06, KermodeBear [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Does anyone have any links/resources for a
basic php knowledge test? If not, I'll have to
write one from scratch myself, and mess up the
rest of my day of goofing off/sleeping.
It wouldn't hurt to pick up one of those Zend PHP Certification
At 12:12 PM -0400 7/19/06, John Nichel wrote:
The worst part of it is, I'm going to have to be involved in the interview
process, and I'm *not* a people person. ;)
Really, who would have guessed that? ;)
tedd
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At 11:31 AM -0400 7/19/06, John Nichel wrote:
We're looking to hire an entry level php programmer here, and I've been tasked
with writing the test to evaluate the potential candidates. Being the lazy guy
that I am, I naturally turned to Google to see if I could find some tests that
I could use.
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