I was asked what a snippet is. I honestly thought the interviewer was joking. I just couldn't imagine anyone not knowing what a snippet is. Then I realized that perhaps they had programmers apply who had never used Foxpro but figured they could learn it if they had to...


>> I felt their demonstration of how they discerned good programmers
>> from bad ones was different than my own ideas & just didn't feel
>> comfortable with that mindset.
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>I have personally had more interviews than I can count from people who read a book somewhere what a programmer ought to know, but the person asking the questions didn't know enough to even ask the question properly, not to mention any variances from the person who wrote the original question and the real world.
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>I feel that all tests really OUGHT to have books or MSDN or something, because that IS the real world. Pose the programmer a problem and see if they can DERIVE the answer from the available resources ... that to me is the test of a good programmer, rather than testing their finite knowledge store, which can become obsolete or develop random checksum failures ;).
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