[skyhawk133]

In line with Psycho's thread, we are also doing interviews at work right now.

We've been asking this question, but need to mix it up a little.

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On the white board, write a program that prints the numbers from 1 to 100. But for multiples of three print "Fizz" instead of the number and for the multiples of five print "Buzz". For numbers which are multiples of both three and five print "FizzBuzz".

Give me some alternatives to this. It's an entry level position, so we're looking for problems that demonstrate a grasp of programming logic, not a specific language.

Another we have, but haven't used as we feel it's to easy:

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On the white board, write a program that outputs the "99 Bottles of Beer" song

Alright, I've got an interview today at 4 o'clock, give me some good questions to hit her with.

[Nova Dragoon]

My favorite of late:
What's the difference between a well formed XML document and a valid one?

[supersloth]

Nova Dragoon, on 10 Apr, 2008 - 10:39 AM, said:

My favorite of late:
What's the difference between a well formed XML document and a valid one?

i LOVE this question.

[Amadeus]

I'd be fried Chris...can't answer either of your questions;)

[Nova Dragoon]

I heard that 80% of those interviewed with fizz buzz can't do it.

[supersloth]

we interviewed a guy (who's resume made him appear pretty accomplished) on tuesday who couldn't do it.

[skaoth]

I like this one

http://www.dreaminco...wtopic43479.htm

I'll probably use it as a warm up question next time I get
a chance to interview

[corliss]

What is the job and the code they will make.
like:Application developer, JAVA.


P.s.
I would like to do fizzbuzz with a complier. I always failed the tests where I had to write out the app. I could flow chart it though.

[Nykc]

I'd fail miserably, I need the comfort of a PC.

[supersloth]

corliss, on 10 Apr, 2008 - 12:27 PM, said:

What is the job and the code they will make.
like:Application developer, JAVA.

Systems Analyst Level 1. Coldfusion, SQL, AJAX

[Martyr2]

Well if she is hot you could always ask her for her number and give it to sloth. I am sure he would appreciate it.

As for questions that won't get you in trouble, you could ask her how she would go about finding the answer to a question she doesn't know. Often times I find the best programmers can hands down tell you where they would go and what resources they would use to solve the problem. Check out the resources she gives you for quality.

Her answer would tell you a lot about how she works.

[corliss]

I was asked this one.
Like what is it doing and what would you change.
*without using a complier*
I feel this applys to the SQL protion of the test.

CREATE FUNCTION dbo.Mystery(@Pattern nvarchar(5),
@Text	nvarchar(4000))

RETURNS nvarchar(4000)

BEGIN

Declare @Len int
Set @Len = Len(@Text) - CharIndex(@Pattern, Reverse(@Text))			Return SubString(@Text, 1, @Len)

END

[Nova Dragoon]

Here is one, not exactly your domain.

You have a code to do element wise matrix multiplication.

int array1[10000][10000];
int array2[10000][10000];
int array3[10000][10000];
populate_array(array1);
populate_array(array2);

//Element-Element Matrix Multiplication
int i,j=0;
for ( i=0; i<10000; i++){
   for ( j=0; j<10000; j++){
	  arrray3[j][i] = array1[j][i] x array2[j][i];
   }
}

What is the main reason this code running so slow?

[Mikhail]

   if (theNumber is divisible by 3) then
	  print "Fizz"
   else if (theNumber is divisible by 5) then
	  print "Buzz"
   else /* theNumber is not divisible by 3 or 5 */
	  print theNumber
   end if

*Whistles Innocently*

[mattman059]

We were always told in CS courses that the typical CO-OP interview question would be like this:

"Print out the elements of a linked list in forward and reverse order"

As well as:

"Implement the Merge Sort"


I kinda always gave them this look