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Yes, but not now. I used to have a library myself before the internet, but it is a little ridiculous to think an experienced programmer, or any programmer for that matter, would pull a book before Googling the answer.
When you are dead, you won't even know that you are dead. It's a pain only felt by others.
Same thing when you are stupid.
modified 19-Nov-21 21:01pm.
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Of course not. Interviewing is not cut and dry. It's a science (psychology). Based on a series of questions, experience stated on their resume, and visual queues from the candidate, the determination would then be made. Common sense has to be applied to these kind of things. My point is that the type of questions asked in most technical interviews take the wrong approach. Technical knowledge is very important, but it's not an end to a means. True experience is based in wisdom, not knowledge and that's the point of the type of questions I suggest and I use.
When you are dead, you won't even know that you are dead. It's a pain only felt by others.
Same thing when you are stupid.
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From my experience people that are hired as they know buzz words and the latest trendy tech aren't up to the job, they can do X but when you need the full back ground leading to X have they got the skills to find how to do it.
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I totally agree. I try to ask questions based on that premise along with questions to give insight into their personality. When I interview, I look for knowledge based in logic, ie. how to solve problems using the tools available to them and how well they work with the team. Just because the candidate has worked with or studied the latest and greatest, doesn't mean that they would be a good fit. If the company has an archaic technology that needs to be ported to a newer technology, but not so new as to be bleeding edge, that individual may or may not be a good fit. In that scenario, it would be a red flag if the candidate spouted a lot of "buzz" words, but didn't offer any evidence as to how or why they used such technology.
When you are dead, you won't even know that you are dead. It's a pain only felt by others.
Same thing when you are stupid.
modified 19-Nov-21 21:01pm.
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Maybe the interviewer has got his questions from googling "interview questions" and they deserve each other?
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00daytona wrote: Thoughts?
Don't read them.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
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Maybe the problem is with the interviews.
If it's a matter of just learning some facts to pass the interview than of what worth is the interview?
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Indeed. If they can't even conduct a single appointment for an introduction, they will most probably bore you to tears at work. Or worse, their great flexibility can turn every day into a little hell.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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Practice-exams should be forbidden in that case too- same principle. And asking questions about drivers-theory is again something similar - we should stop that counterproductive idea.
Then again, if you're relying on those questions, you probably deserve the answers you get 
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How about asking some less generic questions that require a little more than just coughing up the one and only correct answer or one of the jokers? When this quiz goes on too long, I might decide to look somewhere else. Those companies that don't come up with interesting interviews rarely come up with interesting work.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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I think they should keep the questions to undocumented features. That way people can't cheat... 
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the time
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I find them utterly useless!
I've been to quite a number of interviews in my life time, and not one of them has been like another.
The things you get asked highly varies from time to time - and from which part of the world you are in apparently, and even if you DO get technical questions, there is a wide range of stuff you can get asked.
So my question is: How can the so-called authors of the article in ANY way expect that they have picked questions that have ANY relevance to an interview unless they conduct the interview themselves.
Answer is: They cannot! So just forget it!
My advice is: Be yourself, and be reasonably honest. Sure, everybody exaggerates a little to make sure they make a good impression. But if you exeggerate, make sure that it can be scrutinized without making you look too much the fool
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the time
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00daytona wrote: if they just cram up on some technology they've never experienced before just for the interview, it isn't going to end well for either party.
Any company that conducts and interview with technical questions that can be Googled is not a company I would want to work for, and they get what they deserve, IMO. In fact, when I went to an interview last year, the first question was something like "what's the difference between an interface and an abstract class?" I had two reactions:
- You just totally insulted me -- have you even looked at my resume, my online profile, etc?
- My response was "Please do NOT ask me questions I can google the answer for."
After they realized I was dead serious, the response was "well, ok, if I ask any more questions like that, feel free to answer 'that can be googled." 
Needless to say, I didn't take the job. One of the other ironies of the job was that I would have to commute 50 minutes to Albany to sit in a cubicle telecommuting to the company's main offices in Buffalo. 
Marc
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So what IS the difference between an interface and an abstract class? 
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the time
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Johnny J. wrote: So what IS the difference between an interface and an abstract class?
Google It! 
Marc
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When you are dead, you won't even know that you are dead. It's a pain only felt by others.
Same thing when you are stupid.
modified 19-Nov-21 21:01pm.
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Interface is an abstract concept.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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I'll keep this in mind for my next interview 
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If candidates only answers basic questions thrown at them they are useless - (even questions regarding work habits i.e. team player...)
A good candidate should find out what the job entails, then they take over and explain how they approach the work, what their value add is in achieving that, and what they expect in terms or work processes. Even if the interviewer(s) start asking stupid questions a good candidate will do the aforementioned. (They brief on their skill set in their value-add).
It's the only chance to impress, getting say 24/25 questions is not because most others will score the same and one guy/gal will ace the exam. School is done, no more "I can do it," it's time for "I'm the best ans here's why."
If the interviewer(s) don't like what just happened, 2 things become instantly clear:
1. the interviewers are useless robotic workers,
2. sure as sh*t the candidate will not be happy working at that company (unless they also want to be a drone in a mindless hive probably run by some authoritarian git with management skills from the early 1900's.)
Sin tack ear lol
Pressing the any key may be continuate
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I absolutely hate interviewing. I understand the need for it, but I'd rather risk walking by my ex-wife during one of her feeding frenzies than do a job interview.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote: I'd rather risk walking by my ex-wife during one of her feeding frenzies than do a job interview
I don't know where to go from here. 
I probably know what you mean, but you managed to make it sound like she's a vampire.
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dandy72 wrote: you managed to make it sound like she's a vampire.
Aren't all ex-wives?
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* Never pay more than 20 bucks for a computer game.
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I find that asking someone technical interview questions is not an effective way of screening. I prefer, instead, to give the person a laptop and have them make me a program.
I interview for C#/ASP.Net senior software developers. I usually ask the candidate to write me a web scrapper program where I can punch in a URL and it will download all the HTML files, CSS files, JS files, images, etc... and save them to a folder. It must not block the UI thread (meaning it must download everything multi-threaded). If a candidate can do this, I can look at the code and determine how well he really knows his stuff.
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Hi All,
A while ago something happened to my Win 10 machine, mysteriously around the same time as Z: drive appeared, an update? I lost the ability to click on Word files and have them open, it open word and then does no more you have to manually open them, annoying but, hey. I try to open an Excel sheet opens fine, Access fine just click on the Icon. So I start thinking and maybe it got assigned to something else it was assigned to Word Pad, but...HELP!
So next step right click on the Icon see the open with Unknown Application, but it opens Word(?)
Change it to Office it wants to use Office365, I had a look at an Excel file and it still associated with Excel how has Word got mixed up?
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Right click a Word file, Open With, Always use this App (or however it reads) so that it re-writes the file association to the registry.
There are two kinds of people in the world: those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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