The second round interview for my current job was: Here's a spec and a PF
(arrival sequence - so you had to add a logocal) for a customer file. Write
a CRUD program for it - with some appropriate validation.
The template provided was a generic F-Spec and a DSPF DDS with date/time
defined for the screen header - that's it.
Very sad commentary - of the 10-12 candidates, only myself and one other
candidate completed the task. Mine was all /free, the other was fixed
format. One candidate tried for over 3 hours before giving up. All had 15+
years of experience.
Reminded me of the thought expressed here before.... Do you have X years of
experience, or 1 year repeated X times?
-----Original Message-----
From: rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of Buck Calabro
Sent: Thursday, April 17, 2014 2:44 PM
To: rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: What do you call the new freeform RPG?
<snip>
If we're talking about a job interview, a code example is worth a thousand
words. I'd definitely sit a candidate down with a very small sample
library, RDi, tn5250 and instructions to modify and compile one of the RPG
source members.
</snip>
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