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Just today I interviewed "web developer" who was not able to create new web project on his computer (which he supposedly is using for web development).

• krapp 13y ago
  When I was applying for an internship position at a startup last week, I started up one of my local php projects to demonstrate what skills I had, and it wouldn't run... but then I pretty much debugged it on the fly and ran it to save face. And apparently this was impressive because their bar for questions was "do you know what a function is" and "can you use $_POST?" and things of that nature. They didn't give me fizzbuzz, though. And I was scared they were going to make me implement a doubly linked list on the fly or something.
  • dennisgorelik 13y ago
    > but then I pretty much debugged it on the fly and ran it to save face. That means you were able to run your php project, unlike the guy I interviewed. > doubly linked list on the fly Very few positions require implementing linked list, so asking to do that is usually not efficient way to conduct an interview.
  • rmc 13y ago
    "What is a function" / "What is $_POST" is the PHP equivalents of FizzBuzz. Simple questions that you can use to weed out the people who literally know nothing.