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What are the best interview questions you know?
Context - I was reading some of the comments in the "what happens when you type google.com into the address bar and press enter' article and wondered what are considered good questions. Also, I would like to know if the following sequence of interview questions would be considered "bad" by most of you (for an embedded software position):
<Interviewer>: "It says on your CV that you know VB .Net, could you tell me what some of the primitive data types are in that language?"
<Inteviewee>: "What do you mean?"
<Interviewer>: "You know, storage types ... like 'Integer'."
<Interviewee>: "Um...?..."
<Interviewer>: "Thats OK ... Could you tell me what programming language are you the most comfortable with?"
<Interviewee>: "Assembly"
<Interviewer>: (surprised) "Really? That's great! Of the different architectures, what processor's assembly are you the most familiar with?"
<Inteviewee>: "Umm ... the 68HC11."
<Inteviewer>: "Cool ... I actually built a 68HC11 board back in school. Could you describe some of the addressing modes that are available on that?"
<Interviewee>: ...?...
FWIW, these are questions that I asked. Just wondering if there was a better way to go about it.
- staunch 12y agoThose are perfectly fine. Assuming they weren't just temporarily flustered, it's likely they were bullshitting. If they made it into your office though, you did make it a mistake. You should have a very brief and simple phone interview where you ask basic questions like this.
- danjayh 12y agoLarge company. I was but a single cog in the process ... had nothing to do with anything prior to the interview, and little to do with anything after, other than noting my conclusions.
- smt88 12y agoIn my experience, knowing the ins and outs of a language (any language) doesn't make someone a good employee. It's more important that they understand concepts. I'd rather hire someone who's weak at a language but understands that code is read many times, even though it's only written once.
- Klockan 12y agoIf you are weak at every language then it certainly is a problem.
- powelldesk 12y agoThe best ones are those that helps you show them what kind of asset you'd be to the company. And I do not mean just by saying your accomplishments.