What Are Some Of The Questions Asked To Entry Level Software Developers In An Interview?
Posted by benny in FreeWare on December 17th, 2009 | 2 responses
I am about to graduate college (with a CIS degree) this may and I am looking for an entry level development position. I have a technical interview coming up so I am curious what some of the common questions asked during this so I can be more prepared. Thanks!
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I have recruited many programmers in the past.
I did not care of any diplomas they presented, but asked them a few questions.
Amongs them:
1. What do you think of the debugger facility in *** (whatever program) ?
If they explain in details, they do not have the job: a good programmer does NOT need a debugger.
2. I invite them for dinner. The soup arrives. He uses the salt before tasting the soup: he does not get the job: he ASSUMED a state before evaluating it (a programmer should NEVER assume that a user will do this or that!).
3. I give them some common “traps” in the language. IE: in C, you define a buffer in character length instead of a pointer:
char text[100];
Then you fill the buffer with 110 characters.
The program crashes, why?
Answer: the buffer overruns and the stack is corrupted.
Fail, no job.
4. Nowadays, in web design:
“What IDEs have you been using for your designs?”.
He answers Dreamweaver, Frontpage, or any other name. He has no job: he does not know how to code!
All depends, of course, of the position, language and tasks you are applying for… and the skills of the interviewer: before going to Iraq in 1980, I was asked if I could speak English. I could not even order a beer or a meal, but answered “a little”.
“That will do” was the answer, and I had a 4 years wonderful carreer as computer manager, extremely well paid. I learned English later, in UK…
You can’t “prepare” for an interview. You know your stuff or you don’t.
The ONLY advice: be RELAX and go there with the idea: “I don’t care if I don’t get it”, and be HONNEST.
An answer I like: ” I have no idea right now, but I know where to find the answer”
Good luck!
It’s safe to assume they’ll ask you what projects you have done and ask you to elaborate on them. You might want to look over your past projects as a refresher of all the things that you’ve done.