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• Been There, Did That (Score:2)

  by merlyn (47)

  WT column 22 [stonehenge.com]. Mostly done, anyway. Theory is there.

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  • Randal L. Schwartz
  • Stonehenge
  • Re:Been There, Did That (Score:2)

    by gav (2710)

    Is there anything Perlish that you haven't written about? I would give bonus marks to a interviewee that provided a url to one of your columns.
    
    I do have a few things to nit pick about the code, but I'll save them for a day or so to see if anyone else posts an answer.
• Is this a pre-interview task??? (Score:1)

  by neuroball (3260)

  I sure hope so, otherwise you will be sitting around for a pretty long time during the interviewee(sp??) defines, designs, programs, and tests the perl code.
  
  Given as a pre-interview task it allows for a good view into the coders world. You could not only see someone solving a problem but also question his/her thoughts behind certain pieces of code.
  
  bravo
  /oliver/
  • Re:Is this a pre-interview task??? (Score:2)

    by gav (2710)

    Sorry for not being clear, the questions are given before the interview. You are right, the main goal is to be able to question the applicant's thinking. It gives us something more interesting to talk about and hopefully draws the applicant out into a more prolonged conversation. How you think is more important than how well you can recite parts of "Programming Perl". For this reason I prefer questions like "what do you like least about Perl?" over "what's returned by stat?".
    • Re:Is this a pre-interview task??? (Score:3, Funny)

      by htoug (771)

      I'd give negative marks to someone who can answer "what's returned by stat?" without looking it up in the docs (or explaining that they had used it intensively just yesterday ;-).
• It's reasonable (Score:2)

  by KM (4)

  But, since I usually interview a company as they are interviewing me, I'd ask you for use cases to the program to see if the company writes things on napkins and say "MAKE THIS WORK" or actually thinks things out.
  
  I was once being interviewed and one of the people had a real-life problem he wanted worked out. We brainstormed on a whiteboard together. This was excellent to do. I, as the interviewee, got to see what a brainstorming session with a possible co-worker would be like, and he got to see what it wou
• Outside the box... what box? (Score:1)

  by phillup (4419)

  Why don't you just open the site up in your HTML editor and click on the little widget that says to use absolute URL's?
  
  ;-)