Job Interview Tomorrow - 2hr Assessment

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Solarion

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It's for a C#/VB.NET with SQL Server 2012 role.

I think I may have to put a program of some sorts together, or perhaps a whole bunch of technical questions.

Can anyone give me some idea of what to expect?

TIA
 
Likely gonna give you a computer, make you sit there and write code...
 
Jip, You will probably be asked to produce working code. My last 3H interview was 30 min of talk, and 2.5H of coding 3 different projects.
 
You'll get some questions and then some time to prove that you can do what you say you can do.

Simple as that.
 
Alright then. I'm guessing perhaps the following

1> A capture form to write into SQL.
2> Some kind of logic based app (Fibonacci etc?)
3> An SSRS report?
 
My last 2hr interview they didn't sit me in front of a PC, they gave me the equivalent of an exam paper.

i.e. monkey puzzle/quick answer questions like:
1. Asking basic things like "what is Inheritance/Abstration/Encapsulation/MVC/WCF"
2. Then leading to more involved questions like "please write an algorithm to sort the following items blah blah" .
3. "Spot the error in the following program" , then you get it in say Java or C# with some obvious error like case sensitive differences.
4. Then there is the "what is the output of the following piece of code" type of questions.
5. An if they are really good, they will not even ask any of above and simply say "here is a business problem, how would you solve it, give details about technology you would use, and a FLOW CHART of the algorithm"

All answered on paper, no google'ing , no IDE to auto-complete etc etc.
 
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diabolus said:
My last 2hr interview they didn't sit me in front of a PC, they gave me the equivalent of an exam paper.

i.e. monkey puzzle/quick answer questions like:
1. Asking basic things like "what is Inheritance/Abstration/Encapsulation/MVC/WCF"
2. Then leading to more involved questions like "please write an algorithm to sort the following items blah blah" .

I had even had one where they would test various languages, i.e. "Spot the error in the following program" , then you get it in say Java or C# with some obvious error like case sensitive differences.

Then there is the "what is the output of the following piece of code" type of questions.

All answered on paper, no google'ing , no IDE to auto-complete etc etc.
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That is helpful thanks.

Sinbad said:
Good luck!
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Thanks!
 
diabolus said:
My last 2hr interview they didn't sit me in front of a PC, they gave me the equivalent of an exam paper.

i.e. monkey puzzle/quick answer questions like:
1. Asking basic things like "what is Inheritance/Abstration/Encapsulation/MVC/WCF"
2. Then leading to more involved questions like "please write an algorithm to sort the following items blah blah" .

I had even had one where they would test various languages, i.e. "Spot the error in the following program" , then you get it in say Java or C# with some obvious error like case sensitive differences.

Then there is the "what is the output of the following piece of code" type of questions.

All answered on paper, no google'ing , no IDE to auto-complete etc etc.
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Forcing people to write out code is just silly.
 
Also, since it is SQL also, they will most likely ask you to draw up a basic ERD (Table Design , Foreign Keys etc )
 
Necropolis said:
Forcing people to write out code is just silly.
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They usually don't, algorithm != code . But yes, any interview penalizing me on my code syntax is rather silly, since most IDEs auto correct / highlight these things for most devs. So the idea is to understand more about what is a LOOP / IF-THEN-ELSE / ERROR HANDLING / basic code structures (Class vs Interface etc) and when you would use it and so on.
 
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I had an interview a month ago for tech lead position... in the business intelligence space.

They did a cognitive test on me - gave me 2 hours to do it, testing problem solving / memory types of things.

Was unlike anything else i had done before.. but seems i passed as I start tomorrow ;-)

Good luck and stay calm!
 
diabolus said:
My last 2hr interview they didn't sit me in front of a PC, they gave me the equivalent of an exam paper.

i.e. monkey puzzle/quick answer questions like:
1. Asking basic things like "what is Inheritance/Abstration/Encapsulation/MVC/WCF"
2. Then leading to more involved questions like "please write an algorithm to sort the following items blah blah" .
3. "Spot the error in the following program" , then you get it in say Java or C# with some obvious error like case sensitive differences.
4. Then there is the "what is the output of the following piece of code" type of questions.
5. An if they are really good, they will not even ask any of above and simply say "here is a business problem, how would you solve it, give details about technology you would use, and a FLOW CHART of the algorithm"

All answered on paper, no google'ing , no IDE to auto-complete etc etc.
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Those are tough... been there, flunked a few...
 
Generally there is a chat first then you write some code.

Its nice if they let you do it on a PC... but that has only happened once for me
 
Sonic2k said:
Those are tough... been there, flunked a few...
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Me too, i was unprepared once, but just a bit of googling things like "developer interview questions" you will realise all these employers work from the same cheat-sheet . So by the 2nd interview i was passing interviews as if i'm some magical senior developer EVEN when i was not applying for a developer position (i.e. an analyst position which requires some technical know-how, but you are not coding on a micro level of detail and hence will not know certain things off the top of your head).
 
Necropolis said:
Forcing people to write out code is just silly.
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I agree. At least test me on writing pseudocode to prove my understanding of what I'm doing, a flowchart etc.

diabolus said:
Also, since it is SQL also, they will most likely ask you to draw up a basic ERD (Table Design , Foreign Keys etc )
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Roger that.

fruitbat said:
I had an interview a month ago for tech lead position... in the business intelligence space.

They did a cognitive test on me - gave me 2 hours to do it, testing problem solving / memory types of things.

Was unlike anything else i had done before.. but seems i passed as I start tomorrow ;-)

Good luck and stay calm!
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Gz and good luck with your new job :)
 
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