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PleasureKevin: Jan 2, 2011

I'm a self taught computer programmer man

I have to take some aptitude tests to get a job

what kind of stuff is on those things?

please tell me so I can study. thank you

# ? Dec 16, 2014 04:36

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Moo Cowabunga: Jun 15, 2009; [Office Worker.

pity bump

# ? Dec 16, 2014 04:37

pram: Jun 10, 2001

Displeased Moo Cow posted:

pity bump

# ? Dec 16, 2014 04:50

PleasureKevin: Jan 2, 2011

yeah, you should have pity, i currently make minimum wage and need this loving job tyvm

# ? Dec 16, 2014 04:56

Moo Cowabunga: Jun 15, 2009; [Office Worker.

same

# ? Dec 16, 2014 04:57

pram: Jun 10, 2001

check ur fuckin privilege

Blinkz0rz posted:

we're interviewing for a junior position and i swear the second i see a woman interview here and she has any skills i'll hire her in a second just so we stop having to interview young, white men between the ages of 22 and 27

# ? Dec 16, 2014 04:58

Valeyard: Mar 30, 2012; Grimey Drawer

lots of dumbass questions like....there are 4 cities each connected by a road (intentionally vague), there is a lightning strike that causes a tree to fall and block the road between two of the cities blah lah blah

# ? Dec 16, 2014 04:59

PleasureKevin: Jan 2, 2011

Displeased Moo Cow posted:

same

are you seriously selling the farm and becoming a sower of software

# ? Dec 16, 2014 04:59

PleasureKevin: Jan 2, 2011

Valeyard posted:

lots of dumbass questions like....there are 4 cities each connected by a road (intentionally vague), there is a lightning strike that causes a tree to fall and block the road between two of the cities blah lah blah

that's easy, use the singleton pattern. next!

# ? Dec 16, 2014 05:01

Valeyard: Mar 30, 2012; Grimey Drawer

one of the grad schemse i applied to had questions that were purely based on probability scenarios which was terrible

# ? Dec 16, 2014 05:02

Moo Cowabunga: Jun 15, 2009; [Office Worker.

PleasureKevin posted:

are you seriously selling the farm and becoming a sower of software

it's a family farm I am but another brick in the farm wall

the only programming language I know is some HTML :smugmrgw:

# ? Dec 16, 2014 05:03

Clockwerk: Apr 6, 2005

common interviewing questions for c# / java houses that dont actually tell the employer if someone will be any good are

what are the 4 basic principles of oo? can you explain them
whats an interface? whats an abstraction? what's the difference and why would you use one over the other
whats pass by reference vs pass by value
whats static and non-static
whats a stack, whats a queue
whats recursion? (maybe they'll have a small sample, and you'll need to walk through it mentally to answer some question)
write a fizzbuzz program
whats unit testing? whats constitutes a unit in unit testing? whats tdd? do you follow it?
what's mocking (in followup to unit testing)? what mocking library have you used?
how do you handle exceptions?
maybe some bullshit *brain quiz* goes here about how many quarters tall is the empire state building, why are manhole covers round, if you have 8 balls and a scale, but 1 weighs differently, how do you find which one it is, etc etc
we have some sql tables that look like *this*, write a select statement that does <this> (know differences between joins)
besides all that, you may actually be given some type of problem and be asked to code a solution, these usually don't require anything fancy, but if you're just beginning, just make sure you're comfortable using for and foreach. they're usually not technically complex, but do require some problem solving to break it down into its composite parts

there's like a bajillion other things they could ask you, but these are the ones that come to mind as more common (not necessarily more beneficial to either party)

good employers will ask questions like, what is something that you wrote? can we see it? (and then you talk about it, and they silently judge you on whether you write obtuse code or not)

Clockwerk fucked around with this message at 05:06 on Dec 16, 2014

# ? Dec 16, 2014 05:04

duTrieux.: Oct 9, 2003

Displeased Moo Cow posted:

the only programming language I know is some HTML

coutns.

# ? Dec 16, 2014 05:04

pram: Jun 10, 2001

Clockwerk posted:

common interviewing questions for c# / java houses that dont actually tell the employer if someone will be any good are

what are the 4 basic principles of oo? can you explain them

whats an interface? whats an abstraction? what's the difference and why would you use one over the other

whats pass by reference vs pass by value

whats static and non-static

whats a stack, whats a queue

whats recursion? (maybe they'll have a small sample, and you'll need to walk through it mentally to answer some question)

write a fizzbuzz program

whats unit testing? whats constitutes a unit in unit testing? whats tdd? do you follow it?

what's mocking (in followup to unit testing)? what mocking library have you used?

how do you handle exceptions?

maybe some bullshit *brain quiz* goes here about how many quarters tall is the empire state building, why are manhole covers round, if you have 8 balls and a scale, but 1 weighs differently, how do you find which one it is, etc etc

we have some sql tables that look like *this*, write a select statement that does <this> (know differences between joins)

besides all that, you may actually be given some type of problem and be asked to code a solution, these usually don't require anything fancy, but if you're just beginning, just make sure you're comfortable using for and foreach. they're usually not technically complex, but do require some problem solving to break it down into its composite parts

there's like a bajillion other things they could ask you, but these are the ones that come to mind as more common (not necessarily more beneficial to either party)

good employers will ask questions like, what is something that you wrote? can we see it? (and then you talk about it, and they silently judge you on whether you write obtuse code or not)

holy moleu

# ? Dec 16, 2014 05:05

PleasureKevin: Jan 2, 2011

thanks clockwerk

# ? Dec 16, 2014 05:26

EIDE Van Hagar: Dec 8, 2000; Beep Boop

fizz

buzz?

hth

# ? Dec 16, 2014 05:27

rotor: Jun 11, 2001; classic case of pineapple derangement syndrome

an aptitude test?

well there's apt-get, apt-cache and ... uhhh ... I guess apt-remove too

# ? Dec 16, 2014 06:35

rotor: Jun 11, 2001; classic case of pineapple derangement syndrome

things like "reverse a stack" and "what's an efficient way to sort a stream of integers" and things like that there

# ? Dec 16, 2014 06:40

Sniep: Mar 28, 2004; All I needed was that fatty blunt...

King of Breakfast

rotor posted:

an aptitude test?

well there's apt-get, apt-cache and ... uhhh ... I guess apt-remove too

what about the simple answer, huh? that the question had all along? that aptitude itself the ncurses apt, also is purposeful (if not something i ever use ccuz lol if you ever use aptitude when not super stoned out of your gourd just thumbing thru things)

# ? Dec 16, 2014 06:40

rotor: Jun 11, 2001; classic case of pineapple derangement syndrome

be sure to ask if the interviewer has stairs in his house for the shortcut to riches!!

# ? Dec 16, 2014 06:41

EIDE Van Hagar: Dec 8, 2000; Beep Boop

rotor posted:

be sure to ask if the interviewer has stairs in his house for the shortcut to riches!!

no don't!

# ? Dec 16, 2014 06:42

PleasureKevin: Jan 2, 2011

rotor posted:

"what's an efficient way to sort a stream of integers" and things like that there

would "not the bubble kind" be correct?

# ? Dec 16, 2014 06:42

pram: Jun 10, 2001

yes thats one ive been asked. how do you sort a stream of numbers into groups. like all the 10-19 numbers into one group etc

# ? Dec 16, 2014 06:45

Sniep: Mar 28, 2004; All I needed was that fatty blunt...

King of Breakfast

pram posted:

yes thats one ive been asked. how do you sort a stream of numbers into groups. like all the 10-19 numbers into one group etc

regular expressions and hard liquor

# ? Dec 16, 2014 06:49

rotor: Jun 11, 2001; classic case of pineapple derangement syndrome

PleasureKevin posted:

would "not the bubble kind" be correct?

man you can't do a bubba sort on no stream, get with the program son

# ? Dec 16, 2014 06:49

rotor: Jun 11, 2001; classic case of pineapple derangement syndrome

get yo head in the game

# ? Dec 16, 2014 06:49

pram: Jun 10, 2001

Sniep posted:

regular expressions and hard liquor

i dont think regex or switch/case are acceptable

# ? Dec 16, 2014 06:50

Sniep: Mar 28, 2004; All I needed was that fatty blunt...

King of Breakfast

pram posted:

i dont think regex or switch/case are acceptable

gently caress you, i aint working miracles here, just sorting short data sets and giving you what you NEED

# ? Dec 16, 2014 06:53

rotor: Jun 11, 2001; classic case of pineapple derangement syndrome

Sniep posted:

gently caress you, i aint working miracles here, just sorting short data sets and giving you what you NEED

GET THIS MAN A DESK

# ? Dec 16, 2014 06:53

pram: Jun 10, 2001

Sniep posted:

gently caress you, i aint working miracles here, just sorting short data sets and giving you what you NEED

what you need, when you need it

# ? Dec 16, 2014 06:55

Illusive Fuck Man: Jul 5, 2004; RIP John McCain feel better xoxo ð ð; Taco Defender

my boss always asks "whats the fastest way to sort a billion unsigned chars" and nobody does very well.

# ? Dec 16, 2014 07:15

PleasureKevin: Jan 2, 2011

jesus gently caress i have no chance of getting a job

can't they just look at my one wordpress plugin and trust that i'll google poo poo as needed

# ? Dec 16, 2014 07:24

Moo Cowabunga: Jun 15, 2009; [Office Worker.

they will say that it has been a pleasure Kevin

# ? Dec 16, 2014 07:26

theadder: Dec 30, 2011

pram posted:

holy moleu

lol

# ? Dec 16, 2014 07:26

theadder: Dec 30, 2011

pleasure kevin as i have found to my cost offers no warranty on pleasure

# ? Dec 16, 2014 07:27

Moo Cowabunga: Jun 15, 2009; [Office Worker.

I think I've posted this before but my brother was going for a security government level computer tech investigating job and the recruiter asked him:

"what travels through this" and pointed at some cat6 cable. he said data, including telephony / voice but the correct answer was "ethernet' apparently and he was politely asked to leave the recruitment process then he to
d me what happened and I lol'd at him

# ? Dec 16, 2014 07:29

pram: Jun 10, 2001

Displeased Moo Cow posted:

I think I've posted this before but my brother was going for a security government level computer tech investigating job and the recruiter asked him:

"what travels through this" and pointed at some cat6 cable. he said data, including telephony / voice but the correct answer was "ethernet' apparently and he was politely asked to leave the recruitment process then he to
d me what happened and I lol'd at him

wtf

# ? Dec 16, 2014 07:31

pram: Jun 10, 2001

its electricity anyway

# ? Dec 16, 2014 07:32

theadder: Dec 30, 2011

ethernet!!!!!!!

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Moo Cowabunga: Jun 15, 2009; [Office Worker.

yeah the recruiter was Dutch apparently

# ? Dec 16, 2014 07:32

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