RE: /400 skills test

["Schenck, Don" <Don.Schenck@xxxxxx>]

So ... if I *DO* know the significance of SFLNXTCHG ... I'm gold.

But if I suck at ... say ... writing solid code ... that's okay.

I'd ask: Have you read "Code Complete? You have? Tell me a bit about it".

Subfiles are a nit; good coding isn't.

(Oh boy ... my arrogance is showing again)

-- Don

-----Original Message-----
From: Donna Bryant [mailto:peeksoft@ix.netcom.com]
Sent: May 18, 2000 8:59 AM
To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
Subject: RE: /400 skills test


I believe you can and should test or conduct technical interviews.  In a
previous life, I was the managing consultant for the AS400 group of a large
consulting firm in Denver, and we conducted as series of 3 interviews:  the
first was a personnel department screening, the second a technical
interview, and the third a "management" interview.  In the technical
interview, I didn't ask questions like "Can you do subfiles?"  Instead I
might ask "How is the SFLNXTCHG" keyword used?" or "What is the consequence
of SFLPAG = SFLSIZ?"
As a consultant myself, I have had to interview for a great number of
positions and most people will only ask some variation of "Did you do
subfiles in your last job?"    I used a list of questions that I developed,
many of which were from the tests that I gave to my students at Front Range
Community College in the AS400 certificate program.  I may have a list of
those questions somewhere, if someone wants to followup on this.
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