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Things I've learned from hiring interns for IBM
- ulicin 16y agoFor more information about this article, and applying to an IBM internship at the Toronto lab, visit http://blog-db2oncampus.blogspot.com/2010/08/job-internship-opportunities-at-ibm.html http://blog-db2oncampus.blogspot.com/2010/08/job-internship-...
- chrisaycock 16y agoI second the comment about open-ended computer science questions. I like to ask candidates what happens during a thread switch. Their responses allow me to probe other areas of computing knowledge. What are the performance implications of locking? How can we make a networking application event-driven without threads? That really gives me a sense of whether the candidate keeps up-to-date with concepts like epoll() and libevent.
- wooster 16y agoI could literally hear them typing as I presented them with questions that they weren’t familiar with. I've had this happen to me while conducting phone interviews more times than I'd ever expected. It's amazing that people think they can get away with it or that it's in any way appropriate.
- vicaya 16y agoMore reasons to type on glass :)