On 11 August 2010 13:34:09 UTC+1, Steven D'Aprano
wrote:
> Getting interviewees to do a take-home problem just means you hire the
> guy who is friends with a good programmer, rather than the good
> programmer.
We give a take-home problem. If we like the code we see, we invite the
candidate to com
On Aug 11, 8:50 pm, Tim Chase wrote:
> On 08/11/10 01:24, Terry Reedy wrote:
>
> > On 8/10/2010 8:08 PM, Roy Smith wrote:
> >> In any case, if the candidate were to submit somebody else's
> >> work, it would come out pretty quickly as we discussed their
> >> code. I suppose one question I might a
geremy condra writes:
> I can't recall who it was, but I remember being very impressed by a
> company that did a variant of this a few years ago: they put
> programming problems on the sides of pay phones, taxis, etc. with a
> note that said 'If you can solve this, call us'. I have zero doubt
> th
On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 6:04 AM, Roy Smith wrote:
> In article <4c6298c1$0$11101$c3e8...@news.astraweb.com>,
> Steven D'Aprano wrote:
>
>> Sounds ridiculous, but apparently there are vast hordes of people who can
>> barely program "Hello World" applying for programming jobs. One figure
>> bandie
Tim Chase writes:
> Unfortunately there are candidates who would give your answer but then
> have trouble with "Then why are the Last-Modified HTTP headers showing
> a date several months before our interview?"
My response: “Ha! That's a trick question; ‘Last-Modified’ is a field in
the header,
In article <4c6298c1$0$11101$c3e8...@news.astraweb.com>,
Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> Sounds ridiculous, but apparently there are vast hordes of people who can
> barely program "Hello World" applying for programming jobs. One figure
> bandied about -- how accurately, I don't know -- is 199 out of
On Tue, 10 Aug 2010 16:44:17 -0400, J Kenneth King wrote:
> Fizzbuzz is annoying in interviews.
It's not for the benefit of the interviewee, but for the interviewer.
> I've never worked at a job where I was under a timer while a group of
> people sat across from me and scrutinized everything I
On 08/11/10 01:24, Terry Reedy wrote:
On 8/10/2010 8:08 PM, Roy Smith wrote:
In any case, if the candidate were to submit somebody else's
work, it would come out pretty quickly as we discussed their
code. I suppose one question I might ask would be, "Can you
explain why, when I copy-paste one o
On 8/10/2010 8:08 PM, Roy Smith wrote:
In any case, if the candidate were to submit somebody else's work, it
would come out pretty quickly as we discussed their code. I suppose one
question I might ask would be, "Can you explain why, when I copy-paste
one of your comments into a google search b
On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 10:31 PM, Tim Chase
wrote:
[...]
>> More over, it can be done in just a single line of Python.
>>
>> 7 if you're not very familiar with Python.
>
> While it *can* be done in one line, I'm not sure it's the most legible
> solution. Though I must say I like this one-line pyth
In article
<507f1970-9c15-4200-a90b-6ebc018c0...@a4g2000prm.googlegroups.com>,
Peter wrote:
> Agreed. Although anything that involves "take home" or reading of
> "their" code runs the risk of the candidate presenting somebody else's
> work...
I expect a candidate to emphasize their positive qu
Agreed. Although anything that involves "take home" or reading of
"their" code runs the risk of the candidate presenting somebody else's
work...
It was never a good experience being responsible for the hiring of
somebody based on how well they sell themselves in an interview - some
people are hope
On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 1:44 PM, J Kenneth King wrote:
> James Mills writes:
>
>> On Sat, Aug 7, 2010 at 4:32 AM, Tim Chase
>> wrote:
I would like to aquint myself with Python Interview questions
>>>
>>> This came up a while ago:
>>>
>>> http://www.mail-archive.com/python-list@python.org/m
James Mills writes:
> On Sat, Aug 7, 2010 at 4:32 AM, Tim Chase
> wrote:
>>> I would like to aquint myself with Python Interview questions
>>
>> This came up a while ago:
>>
>> http://www.mail-archive.com/python-list@python.org/msg168961.html
>>
>> Most of that thread is still relevant (perhaps
On 8/8/2010 10:16 PM, Peter wrote:
I'm pretty sure both Peter Otten and Terry Reedy were being sarcastic and/
or ironic.
About the most I ever am ;=)!
I'm sure you're right - and I repeat that I meant no offense.
My comments were intended in the spirit of what to do or do not do in
an inter
On Aug 9, 10:39 am, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> On Sun, 08 Aug 2010 17:28:59 -0700, Peter wrote:
> > On Aug 9, 6:49 am, Terry Reedy wrote:
> >> On 8/7/2010 7:53 AM, Peter Otten wrote:
>
> >> > You mean you'd go for the candidate who took the conservative
> >> > approach and got it right:
>
> >> > pr
In article
<388041a0-4bc5-4f65-bae3-d516fb90f...@l25g2000prn.googlegroups.com>,
Peter wrote:
> Realistically, if the application is anything other than trivial then
> it will most likely have somebody poking around in it at some stage
> who isn't the brightest spark in the firmament. Anybody wh
On Sun, 08 Aug 2010 17:28:59 -0700, Peter wrote:
> On Aug 9, 6:49 am, Terry Reedy wrote:
>> On 8/7/2010 7:53 AM, Peter Otten wrote:
>>
>> > You mean you'd go for the candidate who took the conservative
>> > approach and got it right:
>>
>> > print 1
>> > print 2
>> > print 'Fizz'
>> > print 4
>>
On Aug 9, 6:49 am, Terry Reedy wrote:
> On 8/7/2010 7:53 AM, Peter Otten wrote:
>
>
>
> > You mean you'd go for the candidate who took the conservative approach and
> > got it right:
>
> > print 1
> > print 2
> > print 'Fizz'
> > print 4
> > print 'Buzz'
> > print 'Fizz'
> > print 7
> > print 8
>
On 8/7/2010 7:53 AM, Peter Otten wrote:
You mean you'd go for the candidate who took the conservative approach and
got it right:
print 1
print 2
print 'Fizz'
print 4
print 'Buzz'
print 'Fizz'
print 7
print 8
print 'Fizz'
print 'Buzz'
Way too verbose. How about
print("1\n2\nFizz\n4\nBuzz\nFiz
Tim Chase wrote:
> On 08/06/10 15:37, James Mills wrote:
>> On Sat, Aug 7, 2010 at 6:28 AM, geremy condra wrote:
>>> If I had to wait 5 minutes while a candidate tried to solve this
>>> problem I would not hire them.
>>
>> Yes you do raise a valid point. It should really only take
>> you a mere f
On 08/06/10 15:37, James Mills wrote:
On Sat, Aug 7, 2010 at 6:28 AM, geremy condra wrote:
If I had to wait 5 minutes while a candidate tried to solve this
problem I would not hire them.
Yes you do raise a valid point. It should really only take
you a mere few seconds or so to write a solutio
On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 6:25 PM, Steven D'Aprano
wrote:
> On Sat, 07 Aug 2010 06:37:05 +1000, James Mills wrote:
>
>> On Sat, Aug 7, 2010 at 6:28 AM, geremy condra
>> wrote:
>>> If I had to wait 5 minutes while a candidate tried to solve this
>>> problem I would not hire them.
>>
>> Yes you do rai
Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> Personally, I'd rather see how a potential hire *tests* his code than how
> he writes it. Writing code is easy. Testing code is harder. Testing it
> properly is harder still -- it's amazing how many people forget that it's
> not just necessary to test the function on d
On Sat, 07 Aug 2010 06:37:05 +1000, James Mills wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 7, 2010 at 6:28 AM, geremy condra
> wrote:
>> If I had to wait 5 minutes while a candidate tried to solve this
>> problem I would not hire them.
>
> Yes you do raise a valid point. It should really only take you a mere
> few se
On Sat, Aug 7, 2010 at 6:28 AM, geremy condra wrote:
> If I had to wait 5 minutes while a candidate tried to solve this
> problem I would not hire them.
Yes you do raise a valid point. It should really only take
you a mere few seconds or so to write a solution to this.
More over, it can be done
On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 11:45 AM, James Mills
wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 7, 2010 at 4:32 AM, Tim Chase
> wrote:
>>> I would like to aquint myself with Python Interview questions
>>
>> This came up a while ago:
>>
>> http://www.mail-archive.com/python-list@python.org/msg168961.html
>>
>> Most of that th
On Sat, Aug 7, 2010 at 5:11 AM, Tim Chase wrote:
> Another common thing you can do on a newsgroup is mention the "FizzBuzz"
> problem. Any good competent newsgroup will produce a multitude of proposed
> solutions, the majority of which will be wrong. ;-)
That's actually a very good point! Someon
On 08/06/10 13:45, James Mills wrote:
On Sat, Aug 7, 2010 at 4:32 AM, Tim Chase wrote:
I would like to aquint myself with Python Interview questions
This came up a while ago:
http://www.mail-archive.com/python-list@python.org/msg168961.html
Most of that thread is still relevant (perhaps thr
On Sat, Aug 7, 2010 at 4:32 AM, Tim Chase wrote:
>> I would like to aquint myself with Python Interview questions
>
> This came up a while ago:
>
> http://www.mail-archive.com/python-list@python.org/msg168961.html
>
> Most of that thread is still relevant (perhaps throw in some py3l questions
> to
I would like to aquint myself with Python Interview questions
This came up a while ago:
http://www.mail-archive.com/python-list@python.org/msg168961.html
Most of that thread is still relevant (perhaps throw in some py3l
questions too)
-tkc
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On 08/06/2010 10:44 AM, prakash jp wrote:
Hi all,
I would like to aquint myself with Python Interview questions . I am a
Python Scripter, so if u could orient the pointers in the same
direction it would be very handy
Regards
Huh???
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