RE: Technical Interview

Advanced?  Is a person advanced because he knows RPG ILE?  Some programmers 
have never had the opportunity to learn RPG ILE.  Is a RPG IV programmer 
advanced?  How about questions about the SDLC, normalized databases, 
relational databases, object oriented programming, programming 
structure.......

Eric Kempter
CommAir Mechanical Services, Inc.


-----Original Message-----
From:   Stone, Brad V (TC) [SMTP:bvstone@taylorcorp.com]
Sent:   Friday, October 16, 1998 9:29 AM
To:     'MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com'
Subject:        RE: Technical Interview

Hey, Stephen... long time no hear.... how's Rochester treating ya?

Advanced?  In this case, instead of asking questions with direct
answers, make it an "essay" type interview.

To test his strengths in the AS/400 Programming Arena, ask him to
describe ....

Modules, Service Programs, Binder Language and how the relate to each
other.
Activation Groups.
Subfile programming.
BIFs.
etc...

You also could ask things like what type of work he has done... what he
feels is his biggest achievment and why (how did it help the company).
Let him do all the talking...

Bradley V. Stone
Taylor Corporation - OASIS Programmer/Analyst   
bvstone@taylorcorp.com
Phone: 1-507-625-6464 x3147
Fax: 1-507-625-8937

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stephen Johnson [SMTP:v2cib216@us.ibm.com]
> Sent: Friday, October 16, 1998 9:57 AM
> To:   MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
> Subject:      Technical Interview
>
> Hey there everyone,
>  I have to conduct a technical interview on a potential employee for
> the
> consulting company that I work for.  The technical strengths of this
> person are
> RPG and SQL/400 .  I would love to hear from the group on what kind of
> questions you would ask and the answer that you would expect.  This is
> the
> first time I have ever had to do this sort of thing so your help would
> be
> greatly appreciated.
>  The canidate has a years experience and a masters in computer
> programming so the questions should be pretty advanced.
>
> --
> Stephen Johnson
> * Unite For Java -- http://www.javalobby.org *
> Performance Technologies
> IBM
> 3605 Hwy 52 N
> Rochester MN 55901
> Phone : (507) 253-6822
> Fax :  (507)253-7743
> Stephen Johnson/Rochester/Contr/IBM
> Internet - v2cib216@us.ibm.com
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