Hello Derrick, Monday, June 7, 2004, 3:51:20 PM, you wrote:
Df> So, am I just a pretender? Are there people out there that can really Df> bust out a basic DMS in 40 minutes? I would say that there probably are - but you'd have to question how robust and well designed their system would be after those 40 minutes are up. Assuming you weren't allowed to use any external help by way of PEAR/Smarty/ADOdb/etc then I would have said that building a friendly system that met all of those criteria in 4 hours is nothing to be ashamed of. I'm sorry I don't have any benchmarks for you, but I'd love to know how anyone could ever create an accurate benchmark for something as subjective as this anyway. Having worked with PHP for years and interviewed many people, I would have to say what you were required to do was quite un-usual and ill thought-out. If they had given you 40 mins to write a document telling how you would approach the system - that would have been more like it. This reminded me of an incident where a company local to me was holding interviews and getting the applicants to actually work on sites they needed finishing off (basic html stuff) as part of the interview! Never gave them the job of course, just got them to finish the projects. Needless to say, they aren't trading any longer :) Best regards, Richard Davey -- http://www.launchcode.co.uk - PHP Development Services "I am not young enough to know everything." - Oscar Wilde -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
