Comments on: Interview filter question http://www.certpal.com/blogs/2009/11/interview-filter-question/ Technology and certifications Thu, 02 Feb 2012 09:47:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: CertPal http://www.certpal.com/blogs/2009/11/interview-filter-question/comment-page-1/#comment-904 CertPal Wed, 11 Nov 2009 05:26:49 +0000 http://www.certpal.com/blogs/?p=342#comment-904 <a href="#comment-890" rel="nofollow">@David Clark </a> Thanks for leaving your thoughts. It is always great to hear what others think about interview questions and their styles. @David Clark

Thanks for leaving your thoughts. It is always great to hear what others think about interview questions and their styles.

]]> By: David Clark http://www.certpal.com/blogs/2009/11/interview-filter-question/comment-page-1/#comment-890 David Clark Tue, 10 Nov 2009 14:39:38 +0000 http://www.certpal.com/blogs/?p=342#comment-890 It's sad, but I probably would have failed even with 7 or 8 years of Java and 25-30 years of other languages. I would have gone right down the rabbit hole with the first question with follow-ups about the three types of quote marks used, "Do you want the slash printed too?", ... For the second, I would have gone off about methods and classes (ok so far), name spaces, layers of abstraction, machine-independent representations of machine-specific resources and so on. I think the pure simplicity of the questions would have convinced me that they were "trick" questions in some way. It probably says something about the interviews I have had or my reaction to them. Of course, face-to-face interviewing could iron out these misunderstandings quickly. Thanks for the thoughtful post. It’s sad, but I probably would have failed even with 7 or 8 years of Java and 25-30 years of other languages. I would have gone right down the rabbit hole with the first question with follow-ups about the three types of quote marks used, “Do you want the slash printed too?”, …

For the second, I would have gone off about methods and classes (ok so far), name spaces, layers of abstraction, machine-independent representations of machine-specific resources and so on.

I think the pure simplicity of the questions would have convinced me that they were “trick” questions in some way. It probably says something about the interviews I have had or my reaction to them. Of course, face-to-face interviewing could iron out these misunderstandings quickly.

Thanks for the thoughtful post.

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