I interviewed for my first programming job out of college and they asked me to come back and take a 2 hour long aptitude test tomorrow.
What do you think will be on that?
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Anonymous2009-05-07 15:01
lots and lots of scheme.
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Anonymous2009-05-07 15:03
it's probably a general IQ test. or else it will be whatever the specific position entails. although, that's kind of stupid, whoever could write a test that will test your ability to do the job would be capable of it themselves (maybe they are if it's a team thing, but then they're falling prey to the mythical-man-month).
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Anonymous2009-05-07 15:05
what programming languages do you know and whats your knowladge-depth in the said languages?
im in collage too but my collage sux so i was wondering..
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Anonymous2009-05-07 15:10
aptitude
Let's talk about why apt-get is superior.
This job is for mostly a language that I do not know specifically, but the market for it is low and they would rather train someone than higher someone experienced who would expect a large amount of money.
It should be easy though, it's a derivative of BASIC. My knowledge is in Java,C#,PHP,HTML,CSS
It probably just asks you to solve random problems (like parsing through something and outputting it in a certain way) so they can see how fast you can do it, how effective, and if you can do it without bugs.
If there's a personality test, just walk out. You don't want to work there. (OK, fine, the market's bad right now, you probably want any job you can get. Still, know what to expect.)
They will ask you to show them your snake. If you pull out your penis you have failed. If you grab the interviewer's arm and draw the /prog/ snake.in black ink you have passed. If you do this without prompting at the start of the interview you will surpass all other candidates and certainly be hired.
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Anonymous2009-05-08 3:47
So, what was on the test?
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Anonymous2009-05-08 4:55
>>16
It was a note, on it written in bold strong letters
"YHBT"
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Anonymous2009-05-08 4:56
ckUtelenovela
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Anonymous2009-05-08 5:13
>>17
Well, at least they didn't use faggot quotes.
>>16
The test was a language-free programmer/Analyst aptitude test (or LPAT) (I am not sure if this is the exact test but i do remember seeing programmer Analyst on the top of the test)
It had questions that resembled Assembly, where you had to store data in memory locations and then add them. But it referred to it as "obtaining payment" and putting them in "drawers". It had about 8 constraints for example you have to store to "drawer n" before "drawer n-1". i.e. data cannot go into drawer 2 if drawer 3 is empty.
It also tested my ability with complex expressions and numerical analysis. And lastly it had questions that were similar to pseudo code and you were to give the resulting values of certain vars.
>>33 *...*
Please use [i]proper[/b]BBCode emphasis.
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Anonymous2009-05-09 1:07
>>34
Lol, this post would be funny except I think you actually tried. >>33 was probably making a joke based off of a link mentioned earlier in the thread.
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That is why you became angry.