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How to check if a person is a team player during the interview? [closed]
I have read The Guerrilla Guide to Interviewing, where it says that every team member should vote HIRE or NOT HIRE votes after the interview. But the problem is it covers only technical sides of the ...
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Are time restrictions on technical tests a good thing?
So we're having an internal debate on whether the time restriction that we have in place for our technical test a good thing. I thought I would open it out to the community. So what are your thoughts ...
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How to deal with bias against open source tools? [closed]
My friend was interviewing with a manager and mentioned how he likes to work with certain open-source projects in a team and how much easier it is to communicate with people of certain background ...
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Can I show previous company work in a CV portfolio? [closed]
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What sources of sample work should be used in a job interview?
When writing a CV, can I show previous websites I have been the main developer on, in previous/current ...
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How big software company works [closed]
I am mobile application developer. I have 1 year of experience.
My question is, what type preparation is required to get job in big company like yahoo, google, TCS etc?
What skills they require so I ...
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How do you do technical interview when you can't commnicate with the interviewer?
I just had a developer technical interview last night.
As similar to so many technical interviews, it ask me to solve and implement an algorithms within a period of time (1 hour).
But when interview ...
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How to describe the complexity of a project, without revealing information?
I will be looking for a job after a long break, so I need all the help I can get.
Problem is, my best point in a portofolio is an unusual application, using quite unusual algorithms, that may seem ...
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What aspects of a project should be covered when presenting it in an interview?
I am working as a .Net developer for a couple of years. I don't have experience in presenting projects but I have an interview and I will be expected to present the projects that I worked on in the ...
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How long Microsoft takes to make an offer? [closed]
I went through Microsoft interview process recently and had 6 interviews including one 'as appropriate' interview. I am now waiting for the reply from them.
I have a few questions that hopefully ...
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Interview question: How would you write a thank you note after a technical interview? [closed]
I've come across this webpage today: The Number One Mistake People I Interview Are Making These Days and want to know how we should write thank you notes. Typically in a technical interview we ...
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How to display Solid Example of your Skills..?
I want advice on what should I show to the employer when he asks for 'concrete and solid examples' of my skills? I am not an 'Open source enthusiast' and do not have any code implemented and flying on ...
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How to check or assess debugging skills of a person?
What kind of skills determine a person that is capable of debugging code with ease? Some time ago my friend carried out an interview with a relatively good programmer. The programmer got hired. He ...
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What are general waypoints of ability in one's programming journey? [closed]
Rather than defining one's programming expertise by the extremely generic and wholly subjective measurement of years -- which could equate someone who spreads a chapter of "Thinking in Java" over a ...
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Technical interview and programmer ability
What I will say might be a tad controversial in nature but I am very disheartened today - and so I will ask this.
I just had an interview with a major tech firm for an internship position, where I ...
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Entry level software developer technical interview… I need preparation advice [closed]
I'm pretty fresh out of college. So I don't have a lot of experience with job interviews. I'm interviewing for an entry level software developer job. I've already made it past the first phone screen ...
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Is it possible to get formal recognition of self-taught knowledge?
I like many others have spent a few of my High School years teaching myself software development and various languages.
I'm fluent in C++/C#
Have a fairly solid understanding of Computer Science ...
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Cheat notes for telephone interview (.NET /DBs, OO)
I am preparing for a telephone interview. I am thinking that instead of trying to memorize SOLID or ACID for example I could have some cheat notes ready.
So:
Any tips on how to organize them?
Where ...
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Importance of bitwise thinking
I take interview for my company. During interview I've faced many candidates having 1 to 3 years of experience in their field. Typically, they had experience in C#, Java, J2ME, iOS and similar ...
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Java Interview Fundamentals [closed]
If you were interviewing java candidates and when asked to rate themselves from 1-10 on their knowledge of Java (10 being the best), and the person said they were a 9, what kind of questions would you ...
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What are some questions that should be asked before accepting an offer? [closed]
What are some questions that the employer should be asked, after the employer has already interviewed you and is ready to make an offer? This isn't to be confused with questions that should be asked ...
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Simple Project vs No Project - Internship [closed]
I'm a second year CS student (just transferred to CS this semester; previous 3 semesters were mostly biology/chemistry courses with some math). I want to find an internship for this summer but I don't ...
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The Joel Test's equivalent for measuring a programmer
I understand that to measure a project or code, we can use The Joel Test, but is there any simple standard test (like The Joel Test) that is able to measure and filter how good a programmer is?
My ...
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Should I drop in on local businesses and offer my services as an intern to get experience?
I am trying to get an entry-level developer job, but have no relevant experience. I am able to code C#, SQL, HTML, and CSS and understand principles of OOP and have completed a couple of applications ...
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Usual python interview questions [closed]
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Python interview questions
I was just looking out for questions for a Python programmer interview ie.. the generic things usually ask for a python programmer without any ...
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Find the most/least repeated group of N-members in given draws [migrated]
You have a set of numbers from 1 to 80 (inclusive). 20 non-repeating
numbers will be drawn from the set in an increasing order in a single
draw. There will be 2 to N draws, and you will have ...
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Can I advance my career in the USA if I lack local networking? [closed]
I'm a web developer with 10 years of experience in the Microsoft stack. I was brought to the US by my company, but my contract has ended.
I want to continue pursuing a career in the US, but it seems ...
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How should I prepare and what should I expected from a Junior Software Engineer job interview? [closed]
I have passed the first level interview with a company. I will be having a second level interview soon and I was warned by a friend that this one will be highly 'technical'.
I am a web developer by ...
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better way to learn programming with the intention of getting a job? [closed]
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How to get a job with no experience?
So I've worked on a desktop software coding Swing GUI for past 2 years.
I feel that even having a live website selling my java ...
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What are some good small-scale refactoring tests?
I'm looking to test potential candidates on their ability to develop concise, reusable code. I feel like a good test of that skill would be to give them a very small scale application or class ...
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What sources of sample work should be used in a job interview?
One of my friends has been laid off. When I talked to him, he said they didn't let him take a copy of anything he worked on. When he asked how to show what he worked on to another employer in an ...
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Is it wise to post interview details on sites such as glassdoor.com? [closed]
I recently had two telephone interviews and seven one hour onsite interviews for the well known company. Apart from the last interview I don't think the interviews could have gone any better.
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How to find siblings of a tree?
On my interview for an internship, I was asked following question:
On a whiteboard write the simplest algorithm with use of recursion which would take a root of a so called binary tree (so called ...
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How to exceed the expectations of an interviewer asking coding questions? [closed]
I'm going to try to get programming internship for the summer, and expect to be asked simple to medium level code questions during interviews (I'm not applying to anywhere like Google or Microsoft).
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Should I Correct Candidates' Interview Answers?
I've been interviewing software engineers lately and I tend to ask harder and hardeer questions until they get something wrong, then switch to another technology track and do the same. When the ...
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What should a person applying for a junior Java job know? [closed]
I'm applying for a job as a junior Java developer. Presumably, I should have good knowldedge of Java, Java SE, but what else? Java EE? Is it even worth it to learn Java EE (and other related ...
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Employers googling interviewees: should I switch to a more professional avatar? [closed]
I understand that many employers google prospective employees. Before I go out into the job market, should I update my online accounts (especially those related to programming) with a more ...
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Situations where 2+2 does not necessarily equal 4? [closed]
I was reviewing interview questions for a dev position and stumbled upon this question. What are your thoughts?
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Interviewer question: What is the greatest strength and weakness of your development team? Any downside to ask?
I was wondering if this was a good question to ask a possible employer:
What is the greatest strength and weakness of your development team?
We all get this question when we are in an interview. So ...
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How to handle onsite interviews with multiple companies? [closed]
I currently live in Thailand now. I have done phone interviews with few companies in San Francisco and passed all of them.
Now the problem is I have onsite interviews with 3 companies, and they are ...
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How should I deal with nested compositions?
I came across the following question on a website for interviews:
Here are 3 products: table, chair and bench. Product can be of material: wood, metal, and plastic. Design class structures for ...
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Is it justifiable for a prospective employer to ask you to make a decision without full information? [closed]
The Story
I am currently in the process of finding a new job. Several days ago I had two interviews with prospective employers, both of which expressed interest for a second meeting.
Company A ...
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How do you recruit a graduate developer? [closed]
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What are effective interview questions?
I'm currently looking to recruit a .Net developer and we've decided to take a graduate straight out of university. The job role ...
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Certifications needed to get an interview with no experience and no degree. [closed]
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Are certifications worth it?
Given that I have no commercial experience to speak of -- and no undergraduate degree -- how can I best demonstrate my programming ability ...
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Headhunter called, made appointment for IT job interview at remote company HQ. Now what? [closed]
I work in a software development job, but a am not looking for a job right now, but I might encounter this scenario:
A freelance headhunter called, after researching my online profile. Knows a ...
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Do coding puzzles make good interview questions
I am interviewing candidates for Java programmer positions.
My colleague insists in filling more than half of the interview with java coding puzzles.His view is that, if candidates are able to ...
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Practical programming test in interview for flex programmer
i'm looking for the best way to test a candidate for a position of flex programmer with a pracitical\interactive test in front of a computer 45-60 minutes test. need to test flex basic knowledge, ...
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For email interviews, is it bad to research some answers? [closed]
So I got an email "interview" with questions to be answered. I'm only not too sure about one of them, so I wanted to Google the answer. Of course in a real interview I cant do this, so should I say "I ...
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Why do technical/programming phone screens focus on inheritance?
I've noticed that in most technical phone screens, programming questions tend to focus on inheritance. For instance:
If a class is intended to be inherited, what should you do with the destructor? ...
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How can I gauge a candidate's ability to learn in an interview?
We are hiring for a small development department within a medium sized company for which software is not the main line of business. As such, we are attempting to recruit what we have labeled a Senior ...
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What are the chances of getting a good development job without the training in solving programming puzzles?
By "good job" I mean mostly a job that is well paid and involves the development of market-leading products/services (of course within my area of interest).
I have a masters degree in economics and no ...
