What was the most ridiculous, dumb or funny question you were asked during your interview for a programming job?
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What was the most ridiculous, dumb or funny question you were asked during your interview for a programming job?
Do I ski or snowboard?
Why is that a ridiculous question?
I didn't say it was. I thought it was funny.Quote:
What was the most ridiculous, dumb or funny question...
If that question was really asked on an interview, I find that rather ridiculous. What has the fact if you ski or snowboard has to do with you being a good or bad programmer ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Sahir
Maybe more than one would expect. Making software is teamwork. It is important to keep the team coherent. If all team members do snowboard but one do skiing, the coherence of team is threated. And the performance sink fall down.
Although I mean this primary as a joke, I think there is a portion of truth in it.
"What's the difference between new operator and operator new?"
Don't laugh, they had an answer. :D
Q: Have you ever written a C program for Windows?
A: Yes.
Q: What was that? "Hello World"?
A: No. It was "Hello Windows".
/I was hired. :D
:D ROTFL :D I must remember that one. ;)
"Why do you weigh less on the moon than you do on earth?"
EDIT: BTW, I aced the entire C++ interview and I still wasn't hired.
What was your anwer? :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Rigel
I figured that since Jupiter is the largest planet in the solar system and since you weigh the most on Jupiter that the answer to that question would be size. So perhaps the reason why you weigh more on one planet would be because the size of the planet was larger. He acted a little strange when presenting an argument. Something to the effect of "I could take this pen and *CRUSH IT* to the size of a millimeter ... by.... millimeter square. What are you telling me size has to do with anything??? In this case ... SIZE ....DOESN'T ....MATTER!!". - (with a Russian accent)Quote:
Originally Posted by Marc G
He told me to e-mail him when I find the answer. When I found the answer on the internet I e-mailed him and that was the end of that story. The other 3 software engineers that interviewed me said they wanted to proceed forward, however, when they checked with the VP -(the guy that asked me the above question) he said no. So I wasn't hired.
Nah, size doesn't matter in that case. For example on a neutron star which is an ultra dense star (not a black hole) you weight ten thousands of billions times more than here on earth while the entire neutron star is only like 20 miles across :eek:
btw this is an interesting site: http://www.exploratorium.edu/ronh/weight/ :wave:
Right... But I looked it up on the internet and it has to do with mass. So I e-mailed him it has to do with mass. (He told me to e-mail him when I find the correct answer) And he confirmed with a follow up e-mail which said that I was correct. :rolleyes:Quote:
Originally Posted by Marc G
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass
I should study physics before an interview. :p