>(Comments on an entry in the Jobs section - Feb. 10, Quebec, Canada)
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>I must be prepared to send source code - from the project I worked in for the last few years? And what if the source code belongs to the company, as will often be the case?
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>Also, "Include SCX names and functions (minimum 20+), FRX names and functions (20+), ..." seems like a lot of detail to me, part of which: 1) seems irrelevant; 2) I would consider property of the company, 3) the parts I am willing to discuss, I will do so only after making an initial contact. They want all those details before they even consider replying.

Hilmar -
back in the day I was doing technical interviews - I asked questions similar to this - but did not ask for source code.

I wanted to know the size or scope of a project that a developer had worked on.

So I would ask metrics questions similar to the following:

1. For your largest project - what was the counts on:
program files, forms, reports, classlibraries, classes or objects inside a classlibrary.
2. For that largest project - what percentage was your code ?
3. For program files - what was the largest LOC in a program file?
4. For classlibrarise - what was the largest # of classes contained in it?
5. For a form - what was the largest number of methods you had written ?

I never asked to see source code - I've always worked in shops or for clients where an NDA was in place, and I assumed that anyone I interviewed had the same type of NDA in place. Instead - I would give a basic programming test in VFP, then study their code after they finished, and then do an instant code review with them about their code.

Asking for complete source code is bad.
Asking for source code samples, snippets etc MAY be acceptable. But I am always leary of asking for source code, even if samples of one's work.

Another question I would ask ? What was a really mondo cool nifty thing that you developed in VFP that your users might have said back to you:
1. WOW - I did not know you could do that.
2. Oh My God - you did that in such a short time.

But for this particular case ?
Extending *it* into something to deliver to said potential employer ?
I would fire off a question, something similar to -
The work I performed in the past was covered under a Non Disclosure Agreement. I cannot show you any codebase without your firm contacting my prior firm, asking for permission to view my code, and your firm obtaining a NDA from them. Here is the contact information .... Please let me know when you have an NDA in place with them ?

Then of course - check with your prior firm. Most firms will not do this.
[opinion]. I also feel that if it really is a scam to get source code ?
You will get some terse response, and never hear back from them at all.

just my opinions ... mondo regards [Bill]