Questions on job interviews, concerning preparation for and attending job interviews, as well as designing job interviews for recruiting employees.
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Interesting interview question
Today I was asked this question. We have 2 cases with code blocks A, B and C. These code blocks don't share any resources except an iterator (int i).
Please give 3 possible reasons why case 1 could ...
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Is it just me or is this a baffling tech interview question?
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I was just asked in a tech interview to write an algorithm to traverse an "object" (notice the quotes) where A is equal to B and B is equal to C and A is equal to C.
That's it. That is ...
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How can I really “wow” an employer at an interview? [closed]
I'm a top-notch programmer, but a notoriously bad interviewee.
I've flunked 3 interviews consecutively because I get so nervous that my voice tightens at least 2 octaves higher and I start visibly ...
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Is it appropriate for interviewers to ask candidates for their Stack Exchange user name?
Would you consider it appropriate if you were asked for your Stack Exchange username in a software job interview (or as a pre-interview screening question)?
To me, it seems like a very reasonable ...
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How to market yourself as a software developer? [closed]
I have noticed that this is a frequent issue among younglings from technical areas such as ours.
In the beginning of our careers we simply don't know how to sell ourselves to our employers, and ...
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How can I tell in an interview if a programmer is passionate about programming?
While most interview questions are focused on current knowledge of a candidate or check his/her skill to solve algorithmic problems I would like to hire a developer who is passionate about ...
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Why are data structures so important in interviews?
I am a newbie into the corporate world recently graduated in computers. I am a java/groovy developer. I am a quick learner and I can learn new frameworks, APIs or even programming languages within ...
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How much help should I give during technical interviews?
I'm asked to perform or sit in during many technical interviews. We ask logic questions and simple programming problems that the interviewee is expected to be able to solve on paper. (I would rather ...
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How to handle people who lie on their resume [closed]
Moderator comment
Please note that this is a two year old question that has just been migrated from Stack Overflow. Please take your time to read all the answers and ask yourself "would my ...
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How important is it for a programmer to have an online presence?
I've noticed more and more mentions (both in posts here and in actual job descriptions) of programmers' "portfolios" - typically their public profiles on sites such as this, GitHub, etc.
How ...
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What is the relevance of resumes in the age of GitHub, Stack Exchange, Coursera, Udacity, blogs, etc.?
My resume is no longer relevant. It can no longer contain an adequate description of my technical abilities. One can get a much better sense of what I am capable of by looking at my GitHub ...
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Should we hire someone who writes C in Perl?
One of my colleagues recently interviewed some candidates for a job and one said they had very good Perl experience.
Since my colleague didn't know Perl, he asked me for a critique of some code ...
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What questions do you ask about a company before deciding to work there? [closed]
Sort of like the Joel Test I guess, except you don't need to limit it to checklists of yes/no questions.
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Asking for a code sample of the company at an interview
Asking a job seeker to show some code is a fairly common practice for a software company. However, would it be acceptable for the candidate to ask the interviewer to show him a small piece of code ...
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How do you interview someone with more experience than you?
The company I'm working for is looking to hire a senior developer with more experience than me, and they expect me to do the technical part of the interview. I've only been programming a few years and ...
