Re: New Thread - Pre Screening Questions for a C# developer

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I totally disagree with Multiple choices question are not a best judge..
They are useful, specially if you time it and say your speed matters. Also
it can be very tricky if you closely match all options or even give more
than correct answer to say is All above correct or something...

VJ

"Stoitcho Goutsev (100)" <100@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I've always hated multiple-choice questions where I have to provide only
one correct answer and there are more than one.
Unfortunately I've never seen multiple-choice test without it.

Look at the only C# question in the list
3. A class that can not be inherited is what type of class?
a) Sealed <-- correct
b) Static
c) Gather
d) Constru

a and b are correct. C# 2 supports static classes and they are sealed,
thus cannot be inhertited. Because of that I'd consider answer b as
correct too.

The best interview I've ever had wasn't based on tests at all. It was - on
the web site there was a simple application that needed to be written.
Candidates can take all the time they want in the confort of their homes,
with all the sources of information they need. Writing this program in a
way that will guarantee you at least having an interview appointment is
not an easy task. It involves research for the company and figuring out
what they will be possibly looking to see in the code. Neath programming
style with just enough commenting and good object orientation - design
patterns and so on. It is just like writing a program to sell to somebody
(including the source code).

When you get the appointment you go to an interview and I'd say half of
the interview is going over the code you have writen and explaining your
design decisions. Believe me if one hasn't written the program him/her
self that will become clear after the first fiew questions.

The interview process was the first good impression regarding the company
and I'm still working with these guys.


--

Stoitcho Goutsev (100)



"Kevin Spencer" <kevin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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One other point I haven't seen in this thread yet: Multiple-choice
questions are convenient for scoring, but horrible for evaluating. The
answer is always in the list of possible answers; therefore, an analysis
of the list of possible answers will often yield the correct answer,
without having to know it beforehand. I did this quite a few times in my
lifetime. IMHO, when testing, it is not wise to provide the answer to the
subject of the test, regardless of how one tries to hide it.

--
HTH,

Kevin Spencer
Microsoft MVP
Professional Numbskull

Show me your certification without works,
and I'll show my certification
*by* my works.

"William Stacey [MVP]" <william.stacey@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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| Also, it's useful to draw a denormalized table (e.g. customer orders
| which will contain all orders, customer info, prices, etc all in one
| table) and to ask them to denormalize that table.

Naturally, that is a trick question as the table is already
"denormalized".
I know that was just a typo. :)

| Another question is to ask them to design something like watch in
terms
| of OOP - this way you might get a good idea of that person't OOP
skills.

Good idea.

| So my advise - don't look too much into particular details as class
| names, function names, sql syntax but rather look at the person's
| analytical, algorythmical skills and ability to function under stress
| and pressure.

I agree. You could loose a lot of good talent as some of the best don't
think in terms of MSDN style answers, but in logic and debugging and
design.
The test style questions can be found in Help in a few moments and we
don't
need to pack our brains with that, we have Intellisense. The good stuff
is
the knowing the stuff you can't learn from MSDN/Help.

--
William








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