>>>>Whoah there Sergey, this is a memory test not a test of resourcefulness. < GD&R >
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>>>I find it pointless to remember something that you can easily look up. :)
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>>I once failed a tech interview because (in part) I couldn't remember the exact codes to set foreground and background colors in dBase III. I said, it's in the manual under .... etc.
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>>There was probably a lot more to not getting the job, but that's the part I remember.
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>I had an interview recently where the interviewer showed an executable and ask me to reproduce in 1h. time. There were no Internet, no Help, VFP6 (e.g. no intellisense) on the PC. I felt quite uncomfortable...


That's probably a job you're better off not getting.