http://voltinsider.com Job information for engineers who work for Volt Technical Resources in Redmond, WA Sun, 05 Sep 2010 16:41:44 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en If you are in a job interview at Microsoft, you are likely to run into many interview questions related to object oriented programming. One of the more common of this type of question runs along the lines of, "What is the virtual-override mechanism?" Strictly speaking this is a C# language ... http://voltinsider.com/?p=466 A few days ago I observed a job interview at Microsoft and realized that blogs, compared with until just recently, have made a big difference in how you should prepare for a job interview. Let me explain what I mean and how this phenomenon can help you the next time ... http://voltinsider.com/?p=465 An old, old interview question at technical companies like Microsoft for development and test automation positions goes something like the following. "You have a list of the numbers 1 through 1,000,000 in a random order, but one of the numbers is missing. How can you find the missing number?" A ... http://voltinsider.com/?p=464 Let me describe a very common Microsoft hiring interview question, and why I think it's a fairly good question for software engineering position interviews. I've been asked this question many times when I worked at Microsoft and was interviewing with new groups following a product-ship, and I've also given the ... http://voltinsider.com/?p=463 A very common interview questions at technology companies like Microsoft and Google is, "Write a function which reverse a string." It's a very simple question but because there are so many different solutions, the hiring manager can tell a lot about a job candidate by exactly how the candidate answers ... http://voltinsider.com/?p=462 I was chatting with one of my buddies who has been working at Microsoft for nearly 10 years as a software developer. We both started at Microsoft in the same week and worked on Internet Explorer version 3. Here's an interview question he has used for years: "Write a function ... http://voltinsider.com/?p=461 A engineer I used to work asked me my thoughts about an interview question he received recently. The question was essentially, “How would you model a pinball machine as a program?” This is a classic object oriented programming (OOP) design question. As with any design question, there are an unlimited ... http://voltinsider.com/?p=459 In a recent blog entry I described how coming across as being needy is the number one kiss of death in a technical job interview at a company like Microsoft. But there are several other all-too-common big mistakes you can make in an interview. Another interview kiss of death is ... http://voltinsider.com/?p=458 I didn't realize how important body language is in an interview until an interesting incident recently. A Volt recruiter contacted me and asked me to meet with a candidate, "Joe", who had been turned down for eight jobs in a row even though he had very solid technical skills. So, ... http://voltinsider.com/?p=457 I observe a lot of job interviews at Microsoft and other technical companies. All too often I see technically qualified candidates do poorly in an interview. Sometimes very, very poorly. There are a handful of "Interview Kisses of Death" -- things that if you do them in an interview, almost ... http://voltinsider.com/?p=456