Hey Guys
How you doing ?
After being in my current job for 5 years I decided to look for a new one. I carefully chose a company near to where I live for a Senior Developer position.
After a first interview I was called for a second.
After another interview I was then given a sheet of paper which said the usual create a database and write a function which talks to the database and returns a collection of objets and write a web form which displays this information etc etc.
Bearing in mind this was for a Senior position I was slightly disappointed with this exercise. I do not write code to open database connection on a day to day basis. There are data access objects in my library or I use NHibernate.
I do web based development on a day to day basis but I do not code this low level programs every day. No senior programmer worth his salt would do this.
Is it only me or all companies doing this sort of thing ?
Since this was my first interview I do not know the norm yet.
Any thoughts appreciated and any feedback from members who have attended recent interviews with coding exercises.
Cheers
Veekay
How you doing ?
After being in my current job for 5 years I decided to look for a new one. I carefully chose a company near to where I live for a Senior Developer position.
After a first interview I was called for a second.
After another interview I was then given a sheet of paper which said the usual create a database and write a function which talks to the database and returns a collection of objets and write a web form which displays this information etc etc.
Bearing in mind this was for a Senior position I was slightly disappointed with this exercise. I do not write code to open database connection on a day to day basis. There are data access objects in my library or I use NHibernate.
I do web based development on a day to day basis but I do not code this low level programs every day. No senior programmer worth his salt would do this.
Is it only me or all companies doing this sort of thing ?
Since this was my first interview I do not know the norm yet.
Any thoughts appreciated and any feedback from members who have attended recent interviews with coding exercises.
Cheers
Veekay
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