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Conducting the Programmer Job Interview: The IT Manager Guide with Java, J2EE, C, C++, UNIX, PHP and Oracle interview questions! (IT Job Interview series) |  | Author: Janet Burleson
Publisher: Rampant Techpress
Category: Book
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Rating:  9 reviews
Sales Rank: 1272811
Media: Paperback
Edition: illustrated edition
Pages: 150
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Dimensions (in): 8.9 x 7 x 0.9
ISBN: 0974599328
Dewey Decimal Number: 658.31124
EAN: 9780974599328
ASIN: 0974599328
Publication Date: April 1, 2004
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Product Description
Offering accumulated observations of interviews with hundreds of job candidates, these books provide useful insights into which characteristics make a good IT professional. These handy guides each have a complete set of job interview questions and provide a practical method for accurately assessing the technical abilities of job candidates. The personality characteristics of successful IT professionals are listed and tips for identifying candidates with the right demeanor are included. Methods for evaluating academic and work histories are described as well.
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 Excellent book for preparing for a programmer interview September 14, 2004
Laura McKeenan (Miami)
6 out of 9 found this review helpful
I bought this book to prepare for my interview as a C programmer. I got the job, but I can't blame the book entirely for this, since I did a lot of other preparation too.
The book was great for preparing though especially the telephone screening questions which werfe eeriely like the ones in the book. The sample C questions were also very useful and I was asked very similar questions to see if I "knew my stuff".
Don't let the title fool you, this is a good book for the interviewee too!
Another Good Interview Guide September 1, 2006
Kent Crotty (North Carolina)
1 out of 9 found this review helpful
This is another good book in the Job Interview series from Rampant. As with the other books, this book gives both the employer and the candidate guidance in areas such as work experience, personal appearance and education.
The questions that are provided in the book give a good base for the employer to ask the candidate. Of course, each company will need to modify or use only the questions that they will need.
I would recommended this book to any employer or candidate seeking a programming job in one of the languages covered.
 Nice to have book - If you need quick questions on C++ and Oracle November 7, 2006
Prasad Reddy (Sanjose, CA)
1 out of 5 found this review helpful
This book certainly helps managers interviewing programmers who claim expertise with many languages. If you own a J2EE shop and looking for Oracle and C++ expertise and need tough questions to ask....the questions prescribed in this book is good. Also note, this book does'nt help you as a reference for any other practical use of those languages.
 Some good advice December 15, 2004
fuzz_ball (Issaquah, WA United States)
8 out of 10 found this review helpful
Quick review:
Job Hunter: For you I call this 4-star; get this book so you know what to watch out for.
Hiring Manager: Give this book a try, but be sure to give it a critical read and don't take everything you read for gospel; use some common sense.
Full review:
Let's see, this isn't a bad book, nor is it a good book. It's middle of the road. It has some good advice, but it relies on a lot of generalization in helping you (the manager) identify a "good programmer." To her credit the author sometimes will step outside her generalizations to say something like "Appearances can be deceiving" alluding to the old adage of don't judge a book by it's cover, but they she digresses back to something like (not a direct quote here, but you get the idea) "if the candidate doesn't have enough appreciation to dress up for the interview, then what kind of employee will they really be?" This seems to fly smack in the face of the previous statement.
There are several edits that were missed that sometimes interrupts the flow of reading. Some of the sample questions (particularly in the C/C++) section are given low/high difficulty ratings that I would argue about.
Overall, if the above represented the only issues I had with this book then I would have rated it 4 stars. As it is, if you are looking for a job, then I do give it 4-stars in helping you prepare for the tactics that some hiring managers might employee at your expense.
For the targeted audience though, I can only rate this a 3 star effort. The extra star downgrade comes from the short-sighted hiring practices that this book perpetuates. Throughout the text the author routinely warns the reader about legal pitfalls regarding certain questions given their obvious discriminatory factor, but then the author turns around and suggests subtle ways to get the candidate to volunteer such information. These suggestions obviously condone the use of discrimination in the guise of "getting the best employee." The demeanor and suggestions continue to impart that "us vs. them" mentality when it comes to management and employees. The focus here is purely bottom line: get the most skilled employee for the lowest cost that will work the most overtime with complaining period.
This approach breeds a mentality that tends to overlook the benefits of developing a relationship with employees that respects their needs both in and out of the office. Just look at the companies rated "best to work for" and you'll see that there are intelligent people out there that realize there is more to how you hire and treat an employee and the consequences of those actions.
The "get the most skilled employee for the lowest cost that will work the most overtime with complaining" type of hiring that this book preaches will work in the short term, but will do nothing for generating a culture of low turnover, high loyalty, and high productivity for years to come.
 too general to be useful February 16, 2006
Zed
8 out of 9 found this review helpful
The advice on interviewing is very general and can be found to the same detail with google. The advice is all useful, but it's not worth the price and the style is a little goofy for what I expected to be a more professional book.
The technical interview questions are atrocious. As others have commented, the "easy" questions are useful (e.g. how do you indicate comments?) and some of the solutions to the "hard" questions are incorrect (e.g. they try to illustrate a common C pointer bug in correctly written code).
The book just lacks content.
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