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- From: keiter@hp-171.cae.wisc.edu (Eric Richard Keiter)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
- Subject: Re: Difficulty hiring people with C++ experience.
- Date: 10 Jan 1996 17:57:54 GMT
- Organization: University of Wisconsin, College of Engineering
- Message-ID: <4d0un2$26lq@news.doit.wisc.edu>
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- To: gmandel@netcom.com (Glenn Mandelkern)
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- gmandel@netcom.com (Glenn Mandelkern) wrote:
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-
- : Many technical interviews are arranged as follows:
- : Manager: Hey, Subordinate, go interview this chap for me.
- : Subordinate: Okay, when will he be here?
- : M: In about an hour.
- : S: Okay, I'll just ask him some C++ puzzles to see if
- : he is any good. (why should I bother preparing?)
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-
- I realize that the point of your post was that this sort of interview
- is bad. I am curious, however, what sort of C++ puzzles one might
- ask about in an interview. I've never gone through an interview for
- a programming job. The reason I ask: I'm a graduate student in physics
- -- as part of my graduate work I've done a lot of programming, including
- a fair amount of C++, but I don't have much in the way of formal comp.
- sci. training. As jobs for Physics PhD's are rather scarse these days,
- I've been thinking about looking for programming jobs. However, as the
- bulk of my computer knowledge is self-taught, I don't really know what
- a typical CS student is expected to know.
-
- Thank you
-
- Eric Keiter
- keiter@percy.engr.wisc.edu
-