Re: COBOL interview tests

On Tue, 26 Dec 2006 20:42:00 -0500, "JJ" <jj@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

As for your situation, where you said you never wrote a program from
scratch - I know what you mean. We usually started with a template, rarely
a blank slate. But when we had people do a test like this, we always
allowed them to use the help file that contained the Cobol manual. I
figured, heck, I had been programming in Cobol for 20+ years and I still
occasionally used the manual, so there's no reason this person shouldn't be
able to also. It was a programming skills test, not a memory test.

Back when the SELECT / ASSIGN statement syntax was more meaningful - I
didn't really know the syntax, I just knew which programs to clone
them from.
.

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