This is probably a little bit off topic but I was thinking that this list might have the right people for the discussion.
We are doing some interviews for an installation developer position at my company pretty soon and we got pretty burned with the person who was previously in the role since I think we thought he had a better handle of some of the fundamentals of installation development than it turned out that he did. In an effort to keep that from happening again we were thinking of coming up with some sort of exercise that could be done during the interview that would show some level of proficiency. Kind of like the classic "Write a sorting algorithm" sorts of questions that are pretty common for more general development positions. Has anyone had any really good installation development focused interview exercises? My initial thought was to write up an installation package for some sort of dummy software that had a few little requirements and have the candidate verify the requirements were met by being able to point to various points of the actual MSI where the requirement was implemented. It's tempting to take that a step further and put a few not so subtle bugs in the package to see if they catch them or not. I'm not sure I can get a machine for the interviews though, but I'm not sure if printing out a table dump from the MSI through something like Orca would translate well enough. Thoughts? Thanks in advance for any responses. (And if you're in the Twin Cities metro area and are looking for an installation development position, ping me privately and I'll see about getting your resume to my manager) -- --Nathan Stohlmann Minneapolis, MN USA nathan.stohlm...@gmail.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Throughout its 18-year history, RSA Conference consistently attracts the world's best and brightest in the field, creating opportunities for Conference attendees to learn about information security's most important issues through interactions with peers, luminaries and emerging and established companies. http://p.sf.net/sfu/rsaconf-dev2dev _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
