The first part of my most recent interview was pretty
cool:
- "Hey, Matt, do you know awk?"
- "Nope, but I know a bit of Perl...."
- "Good. Here's an editor, gawk, two
awk references, seven problems, and ninety
minutes. Get as far as you can."
I ended up learning regexes the hard
way, in those 90 minutes. The process seems to work with
people other than me, too; we don't have anyone in the
computing group here who doesn't pull their weight. I'm
quite a fan of the "practical" interview, now.
Update: I was recently (Aug. 2002) reminded that
we got 60 minutes, not 90....
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