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Ah, ouch.

Pointer and array questions are on my list of danger sign questions. Questions on the list tell me a fair bit about the interviewer and the culture they're working in. My personal list of danger signs include...

- pointers and arrays

- operating system specific questions

- using low level threads and synchronisation objects

- asking about certain design patterns (singleton is the real danger sign that they don't understand what they're up to)

This lot set the warning bells going that they're either C programmers who don't really get C++ or they've got a huge body of C that they need changing. In either case I'm going to end up frustrated maintaing stuff they've already written or find walls in the way of me being effective. You can use their questions as handles to get a hold of a good impression of the environment you're going to be working in.

On the other hand there are some questions, or responses to answers, that show the interviewer and his company are going to be interesting in working for:

- writing exception safe and neutral code

- writing assignment operators

- we've got a lump of rubbish code, how do you find your way around and clean it up?

I wouldn't discount people asking danger questions though. Don't be afraid to voice your concerns though. A while back I went for an interview with a security company and I had an online C test before I went to the interview, a paper C test when I got there and then one of the two men that owned the company grilled me about programming in C (and pretty esoteric stuff - precedence, complex declarator syntax without typedefs) for an hour. About 10 minutes into the hour I pointed out to him that I was really a C++ programmer and if he wanted a C programmer I could recommend a few. He laughed and said he was after C++ programmers but he wasn't one himself and was more interested in how I worked out of my depth. After he'd finished with me I had another 2 hours of being asked about C++ and how I'd avoid all the stuff I'd been asked about in the first hour.

Anyway my (rambling) point is that an interview is the company's chance to impress you as well as your chance to impress them.

Cheers,

Ash
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