Interview questions
Posted by andrewmyhre on March 5, 2008
Just been reading this post about interview questions, and want to put together a quick list of tasks I want to ask developers to perform during interviews. I’ve been thinking about this a lot over the last couple of months as we’ve interviewed about a dozen developers and the selection process is definitely flawed. A couple of guys who convinced me they were competent developers were two finger typists. Nothing makes your heart sink more than when someone you’ve just hired starts their first day and takes 1 minute to stab out their user name and password when they login for the first time.
Anyway, here’s the list of tasks I’m going to flesh out and start asking interviewees to do:
- Reverse a string
- Swap two values
- Write the output from a program involving inheritance and scope
- Iterate through a linked list
- Write a Pig Latin translator
What I’d like to do is ask for a mixture of pen-and-paper answers and IDE-based answers. The last item on the list definitely lends itself to an IDE implementation.
The above link and others I’ve been reading this evening came from this page.
