On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 11:45 AM, James Mills <prolo...@shortcircuit.net.au> wrote: > On Sat, Aug 7, 2010 at 4:32 AM, Tim Chase <python.l...@tim.thechases.com> > wrote: >>> I would like to aquint myself with Python Interview questions >> >> This came up a while ago: >> >> http://www.mail-archive.com/python-list@python.org/msg168961.html >> >> Most of that thread is still relevant (perhaps throw in some py3l questions >> too) > > A common thing you can do in interviews is ask > your interviewee to write (in Python) a solution > to the "FizzBuzz" problem. Any good competent > Python programmer should be able to do this > in 5-10mins (5 if you're good). > > cheers > james
If I had to wait 5 minutes while a candidate tried to solve this problem I would not hire them. One minute, fine- maybe you're just a little rusty or nervous, or the rare person who has to back away from real-world programming concerns to deal with a trivial problem like this. If English isn't your native tongue I might double or even triple that. Otherwise, no way- I'm going to spend more time hanging over your head than you'll save me. Geremy Condra -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
