Programming tests for job applicants

Discussion in 'Computer Science & Culture' started by Voodoo Child, Nov 10, 2004.

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  1. Voodoo Child Registered Senior Member

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    It has become reasonably standard to subject tech. job applicants to mini tests. eg. draw up a data model of a simple system, write a program to find primes, solve Hanoi towers without recursion. Generally, you get about 20 minutes and a sheet of paper and a pencil(a real SOB if you are a write-compile-write-compile type person).

    I thought it would be interesting to post such problems here. You can think them up yourselves, though preferably they should be taken from actual job interviews or aptitude tests.

    To get the ball rolling:
    - solve the 8 queens problem programatically. This is where 8 queens are arranged on a chess board so that they can't take each other. (My answer was to make them all white)
    - Hanoi towers without recursion
     
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