On 08/11/10 01:24, Terry Reedy wrote:
On 8/10/2010 8:08 PM, Roy Smith wrote:
In any case, if the candidate were to submit somebody else's
work, it would come out pretty quickly as we discussed their
code. I suppose one question I might ask would be, "Can you
explain why, when I copy-paste one of your comments into a
google search box, your entire program appears?"
Mostly likely because I wrote the original...
would be my answer.
Unfortunately there are candidates who would give your answer but
then have trouble with "Then why are the Last-Modified HTTP
headers showing a date several months before our interview?"
It's as bad as the phone-interviews I've done where in the
background I can hear the person on the other end typing my
questions into a search box and reading off answers. On the
bright side, those are short interviews... ;-)
-tkc
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