omo_to_dun:


"If you have to ask whether you need Mathematics, then you are NOT a programmer."

IbroSaunks:

i just thought i should post this , after i did that google search kobojunkie said *ellipsis*

http://www.impactinterview.com/2009/10/140-google-interview-questions/

IbroSaunks:

what kinda questions do they ask fayimora?

musKeeto:

All4naija abi all4Mumu, wetin dey make you vex today?

Fayimora:

You should note that these are not the kind of questions you get in an ACTUAL google interview. You get these questions when you have PASSED the ACTUAL interview.

Kobojunkie:

Wrong!! Those are actual Google interview Questions.

Why would they need to ask you questions of that sort AFTER you have passed the actual interview?? 

Fayimora:

Don't say that too fast. A bit off point but I expected YOU to know that there is NEVER a wrong answer!.

All I can say is that those questions are what you get in companies like ITRS and Goldman Sachs. Not sure anyone is familiar with these companies but at least that is what I was told to expect and that is what I got.

Fayimora:

Don't say that too fast. A bit off point but I expected YOU to know that there is NEVER a wrong answer!.

All I can say is that those questions are what you get in companies like ITRS and Goldman Sachs. Not sure anyone is familiar with these companies but at least that is what I was told to expect and that is what I got.

Kobojunkie:

You are told those particular questions where questions from Google's own repertoire of interview questions. To state that they are not is WRONG!!

Well, I have been interviewed at some of the firms that you are unfamiliar with, including google, Lockheed, I can confirm that questions such as those available at the link provided are asked during interviews, not AFTER you have passed the interview. I have been to interviews where I am simply given a sheet with 5 programming problems, a huge white board, and then 2 hours to attempt to solve all 5. We are not all at the same place you are.

Kobojunkie:

Like I said earlier, it depends on how good of a Software Engineer one is willing to become.

Being able to right a script in PHP/ruby or any other high level programming language is not what it means to be a Software Programmer. There is so much more to it than what you find in the mainstream. Those who go to college to study these things for years are not daft idiots.

I have seen so many of the so-called self taught programmers boast of how they are as good as those who spent years in college studying these things, but in reality many of them are only just good enough for the jobs available in small fraction of the industry. The core jobs still go to those with the high-end skills.

Kobojunkie:

I have seen so many of the so-called self taught programmers boast of how they are as good as those who spent years in college studying these things, but in reality many of them are only just good enough for the jobs available in small fraction of the industry. The core jobs still go to those with the high-end skills.

logica:

It seems you have decided self-taught = set of all web programmers e.g PHP "gurus". If that's the case I think you are mistaken. Many of the pioneers of game graphics and computer game development techniques were self-taught (e.g John Carmack). Now a bunch of the concepts they came up with are being TAUGHT in college classes. Besides you can still be in college and self-taught in the sense that you are picking up skills not taught in class. The fact remains that the best programmers in college had already started off by themselves probably way before college. If I was to depend on what I was taught in college, I don't think I would have stretched my career this far.

Anyway, I agree with omo_to_dun's professor. I can't even believe that question is being asked.

I have seen so many of the so-called self taught programmers boast of how they are as good as those who spent years in college studying these things, but in reality many of them are only just good enough for the jobs available in small fraction of the industry. The core jobs still go to those with the high-end skills.

logica:

It seems you have decided self-taught = set of all web programmers e.g PHP "gurus". If that's the case I think you are mistaken.

IbroSaunks:

perhaps you didn't understand the question fully.

Kobojunkie:


May I suggest you go brush up on your logic lessons then, because there is NO WAY anyone who has that skill down can translate what I have there in what you came up with and think it correct.

logica:

. . .or perhaps, as pointed out, you don't know what programming really is.

Kobojunkie:

All I can tell you is that logically your interpretation there fails considering the original statement cannot be equivalent to the conclusion drawn by you. Unless you are able to prove otherwise, I say no point.

IbroSaunks:

The question is more related to how much math!!

kaboninc:

Please can you help me?

kaboninc:

Hi Kobo, you sound like someone who is well informed about computer science. Please I need your help o.