Re: Job Hunting Stories

Subject: Re: Job Hunting Stories
From: Janice Gelb <janiceg -at- marvin -dot- eng -dot- sun -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Wed, 15 May 2002 09:50:11 -0700 (PDT)


In article shiva -at- io -dot- com, shiva -at- io -dot- com ("Earl Cooley") writes:
>
> The important thing wasn't really getting a
>correct solution (sometimes there just wasn't one) but to see their
>process of analysis under a bit of pressure.
>

A programmer friend of mine says that one of his
favorite questions to ask in an interview is "What
do you do when you have a bug in your code that you
just can't seem to solve?"

The eager-beaver interviewees will usually give what
they perceive to be the answer he's looking for: "I'd
work 24 hours a day until I fixed it, sir." The answer
he's really looking for, though, is "I'd go down the hall
and ask a couple of other people if they'd ever seen
something like it."



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