Programming Interview Questions

[edw519]

http://singhkunal.com/website/techstuff/Interview.htm

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Or you could just flat-out ask them if they memorised all of their introductory CS textbooks.

[joezydeco → btn]

These are all pretty simple and fair questions. Nothing you should need a textbook for, unless you're faking something on your resume...

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I'm not suggesting that these questions would require a textbook, but rather that they aren't particularly insightful interview questions as they test something that can come by rote out of a textbook.

[bayareaguy]

Did anyone else expect the "cpp" questions to be things like "describe the use and purpose of #include, #define, #line, .." ?

[pmorici]

""" what is difference between SD and MMC card? What is the difference between NAND Flash and NOR Flash? """

These questions blow, I could answer the above two supposed "Hardware Design and Interfacing" questions and I can tell you right now I don't know jack when it comes to actually designing hardware.

[astine]

These seem like pretty obvious questions. I'm pretty sure that if I just wanted to find out if a prospective employee had a basic understanding of the platform or technology I wanted to higher him for, I could think of a question or two myself.

Lisp: What is an s-expression?

Python: Why are tabs verboten?

I'm not sure what you'll prove with them; if he misses one, he is probably incompetent, but if he gets them all, you still don't know if he is any good.

[eguanlao]

This should not have been posted. You can find better interview questions for each technology by searching the Web. For example, http://google.com/search?q=java+interview+questions.

[mhansen]

No answers? :-/

[mebigfatguy]

or how not to hire someone.