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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
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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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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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If that doesn't work, do it twice: first to set WordPad, then second back to Word.
Or better, install LibreOffice and be done with it... 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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That was the first thing I tried, It worked until reboot, when it got unstuck. Trying it again...
Well that is odd it is opening Word again but the Icon has changed from a piece of paper with the blue W top left to a huge W...
modified 17-Feb-17 10:10am.
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glennPattonInThePubAGAIN wrote: it open word and then does no more
That sounds like a DDE problem.
There's an option in Excel which lets you ignore DDE requests from other programs. If you select it, you'll get exactly the behaviour you've described when you try to open an Excel file from Explorer.
I don't think there's a similar option for Word. It sounds more like the file association registry settings are corrupt. You might need to repair your Office installation.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Well it appears to be Working now (just with odd Icons) I will try to reinstall if I can find 'blessed' DVD, so odd!
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In the registry, ignore the HKCR .doc, etc, entries, because they've been fixed, so they don't work, any more.
Use HKCR Word.Document:
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Word.Document.XX Where XX is the version of Word documents that are handled -- which might be the same as the version number in Word's directory name, but is probably lower. It should be the highest Word.Document.XX (12, maybe?*) listed.
Right-click on that, and export it as a .reg file, somewhere, just to be safe.
Then dig deeper:
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Word.Document.XX\shell\Open\command
Make sure that there's a (Default) REG_SZ value that reads:
"[the path to]\WINWORD.EXE" /n "%1" /o "%u"
If that doesn't do it, I'd recommend upgrading to Office 2003.
[edit] I forgot to mention that if you need to revert, just double click the .reg file you exported earlier. [/edit]
* There are few things in this world as screwed up as MSO version numbering.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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All communities are equal but some communities are more equal than others.
... such stuff as dreams are made on
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Let me guess...building global communities involves changing people's privacy settings and increasing targeted advertising.
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Sounds like someone who got rich WAY to early in life. No real world experience. College is utopia and so should be the rest of the world.
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So were Bill Gates/Steve Jobs/Larry Page/Sergey Brin ... and most of the younger generation of successful entrepreneurs (at least younger than I am)
He is in a position to do now what most people can only do later in life, Bill Gates started his foundation 17 years ago (45-ish y.o ? ).
I'd rather be phishing!
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Maximilien wrote: He is in a position to do now what most only a very select few people can only do later in life
FTFY 
Unless most people have billions $ where you come from 
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