Hey Again,
There's been a ton of great comments...I realize that the questions and
tactics
I used in this interview session may not have been the best, but I have
learned
a lot through this process, and look forward to doing it again in the
future.
Someone mentioned asking the candidate to write a solution to a problem
then walk me through their code ... I like this, and I've had to do it in
the past.
Actually, they just took the source code and told me they would get back to
me.
I guess I wasn't 100% sure what types of questions would be appropriate,
since
this is an intern position, and I don't except too much language specific
knowledge.
I do expect..er want, a smart, hard working person.
"My books are filled with sticky notes sticking out of the pages with dozens
of
things I want to remember."
heh, mine too!
"Someone who aces a programming test because they have memorized a manual is
non necessarily a good problem solver."
Very true.
"Write an algorithm (not language specific code) to do the following:"
That's a good idea ... I may give more thought as too what I will ask as a
problem
solving question in the future. I'll probably do a bit of googling to see
what
others have asked, and been asked.
"BTW, I personally think swapping the contents of two variables without a
temporary variables proves nothing."
True, I guess I just like to see how quickly, and what way, they solve the
problem.
*Any* problem will do I suppose.
Thanks again for all the feedback, its been a pleasure reading the replies.
- Ben
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From: "Chris Shiflett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "NYPHP Talk" <talk@lists.nyphp.org>
Sent: Sunday, July 08, 2007 9:36 PM
Subject: Re: [nyphp-talk] Questions to ask at a job interview?
Your first instinct, make a copy and then reassign the
values, is a straightforward way to do it.
I agree that using xor isn't a very straightforward solution, but I do
like to look for creative, clever solutions:
$foo = $foo + $bar;
$bar = $foo - $bar;
$foo = $foo - $bar;
By the way, I'm hiring. :-)
Chris
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