Perry;
I remember when the job market was tight around the summer of 1994. With two children in grammar school at the time and out of work for several months I was concerned. I had many “interviews” from Sacramento through Los Angeles that were similar. You enter a room, take a test and then the “team interview” begins. 90% of the time the “team” (short for incompetent programmers without social skills) would ask you specific questions about something you knew was a company problem. I always answered, “Hire me and I will solve the problem for you”!
Comparing notes with other developers gave us the conclusion that there were many such companies doing this.
Being able to solve technical problems does not mean you are employed. Being employed does not mean you can solve technical problems. I like to be around honest people and this profession does have its share of “interesting types”! :)
Tom
>My favorite interviews are where they ask you a few technical questions and by the 2nd question you realize they are asking you to help them debug something they are working on.
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>>I've been programming with Foxpro since the early 80's and I was rather surprised when I went to an interview for a VFP developer job a few years ago and the ONLY specific programming question I was asked was: "What is a snippet?" I had a difficult time not giggling. After using Foxpro for so many years I was pretty comfortable with it even though I still get stumped now and then, but that was the easiest programmer's test I ever took! :o)
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>>>Jeez, I'd have trouble with some of these Qs now. The Qs that pertain to differences in 2.x and vfp3, that kind of thing. Some of them are still very good, though.
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>>>Reminds me, when I was hiring contract help about 6-7 years ago, vfp was relatively new still. But that's what we were using for a new project, and that's what I wanted, a *little* experience with vfp3. So I asked each candidate, on the spot: "Here's a PC with vfp3 installed. Please put a checkbox in a grid and make it functional (based on a logical field in a given table). After about 5 disasters with 2.x people that *claimed* they knew some vfp but clearly did not (some could not even create a form in vfp, let alone make a grid functional). But finally one guy came in and passed my mini-test, and a job was his.
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>>>Not that I've ever done it that way since, hiring based on just one little development trick, but it worked out for that situation when vfp was still very new.
