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Well, I don't really put much weight into having a formal CS degree. I have one, but I didn't learn how to program in college. I was self taught before that. I went to college right before the DOT COM bubble, so the school didn't really care about computers at the time. Everything was taught in VAX ADA (!) and there was only a 1 unit C++ course.

I worked with a self taught guy who never went to college, but could freestyle regex off the top of his head and get it perfect and could look at a disassembly of your application and figure out within a day or so how to crash it in various ways (via specially formatted user input type attacks I mean). I would hire him in a second to do security testing, etc. but I would never hire him to write an app because he could really care less about having a tool usable by other people besides himself.

I came to the conclusion a few days ago, that interview styles go through certain phases...

* in the early 2000's, Windows interviews were all about MFC & COM and asking you the stupid questions like "what class would you use for this?", "what class would you use for that?" They essentially expected you to memorize the MFC framework.

* in the early-mid 2000's, all the interviews were hitting heavy on design patterns. Singleton, class factory, etc.

* in the mid to late 2000's, they moved on to asking C# .NET questions and expected you to have a solid understanding of the entire framework

* 2009 - 2011, they wanted you to know C#, Winforms, ASP.NET, asp.net web services, JavaScript, html, etc. They wanted desktop + web hybrid guys

This time around, the trend I'm seeing is that very few places are doing desktop apps, so all the C# jobs are web and expect you to know the 15 to 20 web technologies at the expert level.

If you aren't a web guy, the only other jobs are server, mobile, linux type jobs. Those are all in C++. Since there is no .NET in the C++ world, they are asking these types of data structure questions again. Back when C++ was the main language, there wasn't any libraries like this and you had to invent everything yourself. MFC standardized a lot of the libraries.

Oh, I guess there is STL as well. They want you to know that now too. Lol...
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