On 11 August 2010 13:34:09 UTC+1, Steven D'Aprano
st...@remove-this-cybersource.com.au 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
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
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
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
In article 4c6298c1$0$11101$c3e8...@news.astraweb.com,
Steven D'Aprano st...@remove-this-cybersource.com.au 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,
Tim Chase python.l...@tim.thechases.com 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’
On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 6:04 AM, Roy Smith r...@panix.com wrote:
In article 4c6298c1$0$11101$c3e8...@news.astraweb.com,
Steven D'Aprano st...@remove-this-cybersource.com.au wrote:
Sounds ridiculous, but apparently there are vast hordes of people who can
barely program Hello World applying
geremy condra debat...@gmail.com 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
On Aug 11, 8:50 pm, Tim Chase python.l...@tim.thechases.com 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
James Mills prolo...@shortcircuit.net.au writes:
On Sat, Aug 7, 2010 at 4:32 AM, Tim Chase python.l...@tim.thechases.com
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
On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 1:44 PM, J Kenneth King ja...@agentultra.com wrote:
James Mills prolo...@shortcircuit.net.au writes:
On Sat, Aug 7, 2010 at 4:32 AM, Tim Chase python.l...@tim.thechases.com
wrote:
I would like to aquint myself with Python Interview questions
This came up a while
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
In article
507f1970-9c15-4200-a90b-6ebc018c0...@a4g2000prm.googlegroups.com,
Peter peter.milli...@gmail.com 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
On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 10:31 PM, Tim Chase
python.l...@tim.thechases.com 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
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
On Aug 9, 6:49 am, Terry Reedy tjre...@udel.edu 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
print
On Sun, 08 Aug 2010 17:28:59 -0700, Peter wrote:
On Aug 9, 6:49 am, Terry Reedy tjre...@udel.edu 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
In article
388041a0-4bc5-4f65-bae3-d516fb90f...@l25g2000prn.googlegroups.com,
Peter peter.milli...@gmail.com 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
On Aug 9, 10:39 am, Steven D'Aprano st...@remove-this-
cybersource.com.au wrote:
On Sun, 08 Aug 2010 17:28:59 -0700, Peter wrote:
On Aug 9, 6:49 am, Terry Reedy tjre...@udel.edu wrote:
On 8/7/2010 7:53 AM, Peter Otten wrote:
You mean you'd go for the candidate who took the conservative
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
Tim Chase wrote:
On 08/06/10 15:37, James Mills wrote:
On Sat, Aug 7, 2010 at 6:28 AM, geremy condradebat...@gmail.com 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
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
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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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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 Sat, Aug 7, 2010 at 4:32 AM, Tim Chase python.l...@tim.thechases.com 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
On 08/06/10 13:45, James Mills wrote:
On Sat, Aug 7, 2010 at 4:32 AM, Tim Chasepython.l...@tim.thechases.com 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
On Sat, Aug 7, 2010 at 5:11 AM, Tim Chase python.l...@tim.thechases.com 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
On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 11:45 AM, James Mills
prolo...@shortcircuit.net.au wrote:
On Sat, Aug 7, 2010 at 4:32 AM, Tim Chase python.l...@tim.thechases.com
wrote:
I would like to aquint myself with Python Interview questions
This came up a while ago:
On Sat, Aug 7, 2010 at 6:28 AM, geremy condra debat...@gmail.com 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
On Sat, 07 Aug 2010 06:37:05 +1000, James Mills wrote:
On Sat, Aug 7, 2010 at 6:28 AM, geremy condra debat...@gmail.com
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
Steven D'Aprano st...@remove-this-cybersource.com.au 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
On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 6:25 PM, Steven D'Aprano
st...@remove-this-cybersource.com.au wrote:
On Sat, 07 Aug 2010 06:37:05 +1000, James Mills wrote:
On Sat, Aug 7, 2010 at 6:28 AM, geremy condra debat...@gmail.com
wrote:
If I had to wait 5 minutes while a candidate tried to solve this
problem
On 08/06/10 15:37, James Mills wrote:
On Sat, Aug 7, 2010 at 6:28 AM, geremy condradebat...@gmail.com 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
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