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[ranger]

question about interviewing processes of an intern vs full-time

Are full-time position interviews as intensive as the ones for an intern, AKA, being grilled by a group of people for a long continuous amount of time ( like 3 hours or so) ?

Also, any experiences/tips to share? I had my first in person one at a company on Monday...'Tis a bit different from the phone interviews I've done back on campus.

[Kirbypepe]

Well at the internship that I'm in now, what they asked me is what I knew about data and databases(Since I was applying for a data miner type job) although now I'm more of a general intern. They did ask me like the difference of C# and C++, what languages I knew, and well graduation date. Although thats just me.

A friend of mine found this link for standard questions that they would ask, although I think this is more about an entry level full time.
http://www.searchcrone.com/2011/09/c-oo ... -answers-1
This site has a few good interview questions that would be asked.

I've heard that they would do both a phone interview, as well as like a knowledge group interview but I haven't had anyone that went through that so I don't know.

[Akonyl]

when I interviewed for this place (full time), it was a pretty long interview, 3 hours-ish or so, yeah. The interview basically consisted of having me talk to various people I'd be working with / my bosses 2 at a time, and then getting asked some program-related questions and to write up some code. They weren't very strict about the code, basically saying "you can use us like you'd use google to find out proper syntax"

basically, types of things they had me do was algorithms (namely linked lists, comparisons, sorting, all as efficient as possible), virtual functions (how they're used, examples, how it's possible to avoid using them), and const-ness in passed arguments (which is something that I actually blanked out a bit on, considering I only ever wrote code for myself so I never worried about constness )

the linked list one messed me up a bit because the answer had to do with moving the payload pointer rather than the node itself, which is something we were never really told to do in CS classes 

aside from that my only advice would be to show up in a suit(or whatever fancy clothes you have) unless you know they expect something more casual, even though my job doesn't require a suit during work I wore one to the interview anyway.

[redangelran]

Currently working on "5 digit Palindrome Checker" in C++. Will the use of modulo do it?

[Akonyl]

you can use modulo in your solution, to break off the most significant digit and the least significant digit, compare them for equality and continue till you have 0 or 1 digits, but depending on if you're allowed to use itoa() or not, it'd probably be easier (or at least more straightforward) to convert the number to a string, reverse the string, then compare the normal+reversed strings for equality.

[redangelran]

were not on that lesson yet, so probably it's safer to use modulo
thanks a lot!

[ranger]

I'm co-oping as an intern at a company for a guaranteed 5 months, starting January.

This kinda sums up what I'm going to feel like

[Kirbypepe]

Haha well that's how most jobs start out no?

[Akonyl]

definitely what my job felt like when I started out

[ranger]

Yeah...it's going to be interesting.  Also, the company isn't exactly being the most helpful when it comes to relocation. -.-  I figure...after my co-op is done, after taxes and paying expenses (rent+food), I'll probably either break even or go negative.

[Akonyl]

gogo Ramen Ranger!

also: I hate you and your unmutability, Strings. Why you gotta throw a wrench in my plans and make me write a wrapper for such a basic thing?

I h8 u

[ranger]

gogo Ramen Ranger!

also: I hate you and your unmutability, Strings. Why you gotta throw a wrench in my plans and make me write a wrapper for such a basic thing?

I h8 u

yeah...I wonder if employees eat free at their cafeterias (I hope, otherwise, hello cup of noodles)

And there is a reason why strings are immutable The main reason why I would think is if some filename gets changed by some thing working behind the curtains

I'm rusty on my Java however though - wrapper classes..yuck

[Akonyl]

this is C# actually, not Java, not that it's much different

and I'm not sure what you mean with filenames, as with your example I'm not sure how immutability would really help with that. They're generally immutable for speed, memory/storage and for convenience of use (so you can do s2=s1; s1= "Different", and then have s2 not be changed),  can't really think of any security reason like file handling and such.

[ranger]

but not really.  My co-workers are very nice

[Akonyl]

that bottom-left panel's basically what happened when I started work, except in my case it was "oh hey we're gonna stick you in the office with these two guys so they can teach you" and then they were in the office maybe 10% of the time because they were working on projects that needed them elsewhere :V