Honestly if someone did come into the interview and say they saw something like this on the Wix-Users mailing list, it would definitely add a couple of points in my book. Certainly not a guaranteed hire for obvious reasons though. :-)
--Nathan On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 11:59 AM, Schrieken, Rene <rene.schrie...@logica.com> wrote: > Having read this request probably makes that I qualify for the position > ;-) > > Now only find out how bad the commute is from Gouda.... > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Nathan Stohlmann [mailto:nathan.stohlm...@gmail.com] > Sent: maandag 25 januari 2010 18:49 > To: [Wix Users] > Subject: [WiX-users] Interviewing an installation developer > > This is probably a little bit off topic but I was thinking that this > list might have the right people for the discussion. > > We are doing some interviews for an installation developer position at > my company pretty soon and we got pretty burned with the person who > was previously in the role since I think we thought he had a better > handle of some of the fundamentals of installation development than it > turned out that he did. In an effort to keep that from happening again > we were thinking of coming up with some sort of exercise that could be > done during the interview that would show some level of proficiency. > Kind of like the classic "Write a sorting algorithm" sorts of > questions that are pretty common for more general development > positions. > > Has anyone had any really good installation development focused > interview exercises? > > My initial thought was to write up an installation package for some > sort of dummy software that had a few little requirements and have the > candidate verify the requirements were met by being able to point to > various points of the actual MSI where the requirement was > implemented. It's tempting to take that a step further and put a few > not so subtle bugs in the package to see if they catch them or not. > I'm not sure I can get a machine for the interviews though, but I'm > not sure if printing out a table dump from the MSI through something > like Orca would translate well enough. Thoughts? > > Thanks in advance for any responses. > > (And if you're in the Twin Cities metro area and are looking for an > installation development position, ping me privately and I'll see > about getting your resume to my manager) > > -- > --Nathan Stohlmann > Minneapolis, MN USA > nathan.stohlm...@gmail.com > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > ------ > Throughout its 18-year history, RSA Conference consistently attracts the > world's best and brightest in the field, creating opportunities for > Conference > attendees to learn about information security's most important issues > through > interactions with peers, luminaries and emerging and established > companies. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/rsaconf-dev2dev > _______________________________________________ > WiX-users mailing list > WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users > > > Please help Logica to respect the environment by not printing this email / > Pour contribuer comme Logica au respect de l'environnement, merci de ne pas > imprimer ce mail / Bitte drucken Sie diese Nachricht nicht aus und helfen > Sie so Logica dabei, die Umwelt zu schützen. / Por favor ajude a Logica a > respeitar o ambiente nao imprimindo este correio electronico. > > > > This e-mail and any attachment is for authorised use by the intended > recipient(s) only. It may contain proprietary material, confidential > information and/or be subject to legal privilege. It should not be copied, > disclosed to, retained or used by, any other party. If you are not an > intended recipient then please promptly delete this e-mail and any attachment > and all copies and inform the sender. Thank you. > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Throughout its 18-year history, RSA Conference consistently attracts the > world's best and brightest in the field, creating opportunities for Conference > attendees to learn about information security's most important issues through > interactions with peers, luminaries and emerging and established companies. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/rsaconf-dev2dev > _______________________________________________ > WiX-users mailing list > WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users > > -- --Nathan Stohlmann Minneapolis, MN USA nathan.stohlm...@gmail.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Throughout its 18-year history, RSA Conference consistently attracts the world's best and brightest in the field, creating opportunities for Conference attendees to learn about information security's most important issues through interactions with peers, luminaries and emerging and established companies. http://p.sf.net/sfu/rsaconf-dev2dev _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
