Re: interview questions


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Hi !!
Can anyone help me out with these interview questions:

I have some sympathy for you because at least you posted your answers.
Unfortunately, the nature of a such an interview test is to assess YOUR
knowledge of the subject, not ours.

I don't understand why you would ask us to do this and if I was interviewing
you, I'm afraid you would fail (even if your answers below were all 100%
correct (and they are not...). See, doing what you are doing is actually
dishonest, and I'd rather have a less accomplished honest programmer than a
brilliant dishonest one.

It may be that you are doing this in all innocence, the interview having
passed. That being so, you could ask the people who set the test what
answers they were expecting. There are so many errors in the questions that
the expected answers are not would actually happen. I realize that English
is probably not your first language, neither is it the first language of the
people who set this test, but you (and they) must understand that
programming requires attention to detail and spelling is important.
(Especially in COBOL). If someone gave me this test I would first correct
the questions before I would even attempt to answer them.

It would be very easy to go through your questions and post unhelpful, smart
answers to them. Because you posted your answers, I won't do that.

My advice would be to think about what is important in your life and the
kind of person you want to be. Do you think that being a programmere means
taking the easy way? If you can be something more than you are at present,
it is very likely that you would be an asset to any programming team, even
if you didn't get 100%.

Find out who you really are and present that at your interview.

Good luck.

Pete.



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