Questions on job interviews, concerning preparation for and attending job interviews, as well as designing job interviews for recruiting employees.
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Approximately how much is solid and broad knowledge of data structures and algorithms worth in the employment market? [on hold]
I'm wondering how much I can boost my salary if I was to gain a strong and broad understanding of data structures and algorithms. I know the real basis but there are so many data-structures out there ...
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how to improve design ability [closed]
I recently went on a couple of interviews and all of them asked a one or two design questions, like how you would design a chess, monopoly, and so on. I didn't do good on those since I am a college ...
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Natural talent vs experience [closed]
Hi i have a question for you guys if you had a choice of hiring one of two programmers.
One of them is a natural born programming talent, he has been programming since he was 14 year old and he has ...
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What development tasks do you NOT enjoy and explain why [closed]
I was recently asked this question in a job interview and didn't know how to respond. To tell you the truth I have have never been in this situation where I am not enjoying programming. How would you ...
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Computer Engineer in CS Interview [closed]
As a Computer Engineering student, while in school I've primarily dealt with C, Matlab, and VHDL. On my own though, i learned a bit about OOP (Polymorphism, inheritance, encapsulation), and have done ...
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Common Substring of two strings [migrated]
This particular interview-question stumped me:
Given two Strings S1 and S2. Find the longest Substring which is a Prefix of S1 and suffix of S2.
Through Google, I came across the following ...
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Implementing basic data structures in programming interviews [closed]
I have been preparing to do my first technical interview in a month, and I have a question about implementing common data structures like stacks or linked lists. I plan to do the interview in either ...
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Database is performing slow, even all the tables are having normalization
One of the interviewers asked me this question:
Tables are created with appropriate normalization rules, However the database is performing slow. [Ie.: The select, insert statements are taking ...
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Interview Coding Assignments… how much do they account for? [closed]
So I've ran into a couple of companies that requires completing coding assignments before they give you a phone interview. I'm curious, do these coding assignments account for anything after the ...
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Can I Put My Past Company's Project in my Resume? [closed]
I am building my resume now but I am unsure if I am allowed to put my past company's project in the Project's section of my resume. I am not planning on disclosing proprietary details, just the name ...
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Developer failing developer interviews [closed]
I'm a Java developer, mostly doing Spring stuff. I understand the patterns, OOP, bean injection, multithreading and everything that goes with it. I don't feel like I'm a bad developer, I get my stuff ...
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Open source project question in interview [closed]
I've recently applied for a position as C# developer, and during the interview, the interviewers asked me many times if I contribute to develop one or more open source project.
Since they let me ...
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Is there more to being a programmer than what I'm being exposed to? [closed]
I've been working as a programmer for almost 3 years now. Goes without saying that this is the first job that I got as a programmer after graduating from college. Anyways, I went for an interview at ...
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Is it appropriate for interviewers to ask candidates for their Stack Exchange user name? [closed]
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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Problem solving skills and job interviews [closed]
Probably few of you are interviewing wannabe programmers. I'm 28, never worked as a programmer, but spent few months learning C and solving problems. I loved it so much that I do it every day just ...
