The callback interview for my current job was to write a simple file maintenance program.
All the candidates had 15 or more years of experience and claimed to be able to write code.
Rob's comment about 1 year repeated 20 times is dead on.
Only two of us finished and I was the only one using free format. I was told one person worked on it for 4-5 hours before they put her out of her misery.
Roger Harman
COMMON Certified Application Developer - ILE RPG on IBM i on Power
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From: Michael Schutte <mschutte369@xxxxxxxxx>
To: midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: 08/26/2016 06:54 AM
Subject: Conducting interviews
Sent by: "MIDRANGE-L" <midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
I'm a bit nervous. Today was supposed to be me attending an interview not
leading it.
But here we are. Time for me to break out of my shell.
Does anyone have any tips or things I should be asking? We are
interviewing a consultant for RPGLE position.
Would it be appropriate to ask them to find a bug in a 20 line procedure?
We haven't had much success lately with people that can debug issues. This
to me is a biggie. This particular issue I expect someone to be able to
find just looking at the code. I discovered it yesterday going to have
fixed today. I just thought this would give me some insight on the person
problem solving ability.
Sent from my iPhone
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