Comments on: A Quick C# Teaser http://www.hackification.com/2008/09/08/a-quick-c-teaser/ Rediscover the joy of coding. Sun, 07 Mar 2010 03:07:55 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: stusmith http://www.hackification.com/2008/09/08/a-quick-c-teaser/comment-page-1/#comment-275 stusmith Wed, 10 Dec 2008 10:17:45 +0000 http://www.hackification.com/?p=42#comment-275 @Johan - why not as an interview question? Because it isn't testing the candidate for the skills you want (ability to code useful systems), rather it tests to see whether they (a) know the largely useless corners of a language, and (b) are fluent in obfuscated coding. (And maybe [c] - has seen this trick question before). Another reason is that in general questions that the candidate either knows or doesn't know the answer to can be handled in a pre-screening process (eg a test), if you want to do that sort of thing. Better questions allow you as an interviewer to guide the interviewee towards the answer - and the amount of "hand-holding" needed gives a good idea of the capability of the person. @Johan – why not as an interview question? Because it isn’t testing the candidate for the skills you want (ability to code useful systems), rather it tests to see whether they (a) know the largely useless corners of a language, and (b) are fluent in obfuscated coding. (And maybe [c] – has seen this trick question before).

Another reason is that in general questions that the candidate either knows or doesn’t know the answer to can be handled in a pre-screening process (eg a test), if you want to do that sort of thing. Better questions allow you as an interviewer to guide the interviewee towards the answer – and the amount of “hand-holding” needed gives a good idea of the capability of the person.

]]> By: Johan http://www.hackification.com/2008/09/08/a-quick-c-teaser/comment-page-1/#comment-273 Johan Wed, 10 Dec 2008 07:55:16 +0000 http://www.hackification.com/?p=42#comment-273 Is it because labels are bad! bad! bad! programming style? Is it because labels are bad! bad! bad! programming style?

]]> By: Johan http://www.hackification.com/2008/09/08/a-quick-c-teaser/comment-page-1/#comment-272 Johan Wed, 10 Dec 2008 07:12:44 +0000 http://www.hackification.com/?p=42#comment-272 Why don't you want us to use it in a interview? It was my first thought. Why don’t you want us to use it in a interview? It was my first thought.

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