Interview Questions You Should Ask Them

gkm said:
If somebody asks me the first question, the interview is pretty much over. It is a workplace, not a dating service.
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Unless the somebody asking me that question is a HOT CHICK!
 
noxibox said:
Test driven development is meant to be more about the discipline of thinking about testing in advance, instead of trying to get it all done later.
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You do realise that this generally clashes with most implementations of Agile development, right?
 
please don't start a "what is agile" metadiscussion.. or anything similar on any of the points.

im interested in what constitutes a deal breaker for you regarding work in tech.

not really interested in a 40 page "no this is design" flame war.

just trying to stop this from turning into our usual off topic Friday afternoon spam
 
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sp4ceman said:
im interested in what constitutes a deal breaker for you regarding work in tech.
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That has got nothing to do with your OP. You would usually investigate these types of things before accepting an interview with a company. The questions you posed in any event, should have been answered when the interviewer introduced themselves and expounded on the company.
 
sp4ceman said:
please don't start a "what is agile" metadiscussion.. or anything similar on any of the points.

im interested in what constitutes a deal breaker for you regarding work in tech.

not really interested in a 40 page "no this is design" flame war.

just trying to stop this from turning into our usual off topic Friday afternoon spam
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Can I wear jeans/shorts and flip flops to work.

...probably the most important question.
 
sp4ceman said:
please don't start a "what is agile" metadiscussion.. or anything similar on any of the points.

im interested in what constitutes a deal breaker for you regarding work in tech.

not really interested in a 40 page "no this is design" flame war.

just trying to stop this from turning into our usual off topic Friday afternoon spam
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Java specific, but if they use spring I won't even bother to continue the interview

Hamster said:
Can I wear jeans/shorts and flip flops to work.

...probably the most important question.
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That is also important to me
 
Veroland said:
Java specific, but if they use spring I won't even bother to continue the interview
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what???? sorry, but this is up there with worst post of the week....

or maybe I should give you the benefit of the doubt and assume you mistyped and forgot to put "don't" before "use" :)
 
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_kabal_ said:
what???? sorry, but this is up there with worst post of the week....

or maybe I should give you the benefit of the doubt and assume you mistyped and forgot to put "don't" before "use" :)
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Nope, I hate spring, mostly because in my experience why use spring when you are going to deploy to a JEE container anyway...........

Let's just say I've spent many days trying to make spring work properly in WAS, JBoss etc.

<rant>
Spring is good and the current JEE spec took a lot of its good concepts from spring to get it where it is now, but there is a lot I hate about it. Quick recent example, "I need to use a timer", "Ok spring timer ***ks out in was, it's seems to work nice but it run outside of the correct context , I can't look up java:comp", "Ok now lets configure spring to use the was timer"

or

Yeah, I want use @WebClient annotation, great idea but the containers does not support the spring annotation so now I have to lookup the client anyway to be able to use the dynamic abilities like connection pooling, setting ports etc that spring can't give me on fly.
</rant>

If you know what your target container is why bother with the headaches of trying to incorporate spring? Where I am currently doing a project there is a 1000+ WAS installations, so we bloody well know the target environment is going to be WAS and they are not going to change it anytime soon, but no, the system needs to be platform independant.

I mean. who the **** is going to try and run a app that can get a 1000 logins per second on month end in Jetty?
 
I think you have completely missed the point of spring....
 
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_kabal_ said:
I think you have completely missed the point of spring....
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What is the point of spring then if not a independant lightweight container?

Ps, maybe we should take this elsewhere instead of derailing this thread? Believe it or not, I would be interested in your views on the spring subject.
 
cguy said:
I bought the book "Are you smart enough to work at Google?". What I got from it was "Yes, I am" and "This is a stupid book" :-). The one you cite looks as though it covers the basics at least.
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Yes, asking trick questions is against policy at most of these big tech companies, so I do not really see the point of that "smart" book, except to stroke somebody ego. Asking a trick question is a waste of 5 minutes of interview time that can be better used to discover what the candidate actually knows that is relevant to the job. And the trick question can potentially p*** off the candidate that you actually want to hire, causing the full interview time sadly to be a waste of time.
 
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