Interview questions

[Ajay]

Hi All,

how about starting a thread where people post c++ coding questions and
others respond. This will help people preparing for interviews. I have
attended many (cleared most of them).

While preparing - I found that one question may have many answers. But
one may never know that best one. we can discuss that over here.

Why should people pay for buying books when we have such a large
community who can help with C++/C

-Ajay

 

[Rolf Magnus]

Hi All,

how about starting a thread where people post c++ coding questions and
others respond. This will help people preparing for interviews.

You mean questions that could be asked in such interviews?
If they post their attempt at answering them, too, it's fine.
Posting the question only is frowned upon here, because people are
frequently posting their homework assignments in the hope of getting them
done by somebody else without even attempting to try it themselves.

I have attended many (cleared most of them).

While preparing - I found that one question may have many answers. But
one may never know that best one. we can discuss that over here.

Why should people pay for buying books when we have such a large
community who can help with C++/C

Because asking them also takes their time, not only our own. So you should
always try to find the answer yourself before bothering others. Further,
waiting for the answers to your postings can take several hours.

 

[BigBrian]

how about starting a thread where people post c++ coding questions

and others respond. This will help people preparing for interviews.

I don't see this being useful. If you understand the language, then
interview questions are not an issue. If you don't understand the
language, then memorizing a set of interview questions and answers, is
not the way to improve yourself. And if you're the interviewer, you
should already know what's important for the given task.

 

[davidrubin]

I don't see this being useful. If you understand the language, then
interview questions are not an issue. If you don't understand the
language, then memorizing a set of interview questions and answers, is
not the way to improve yourself. And if you're the interviewer, you
should already know what's important for the given task.

Furthermore, posting interview questions in unethical because it biases
the applicant pool. For example, if I found out that the recruiters I
hired were giving away our interview questions, I would fire them
immediately. /david

 

[Andrew Koenig]

Why should people pay for buying books when we have such a large
community who can help with C++/C

Why would anyone write books if no one buys them?

 

[osmium]

Why should people pay for buying books when we have such a large
community who can help with C++/C

Because they want to learn more than a few factoids per fortnight?

 

[Donovan Rebbechi]

Hi All,

how about starting a thread where people post c++ coding questions and
others respond.

Great idea ... but I thought that's what people on this newsgroup did all the
time. Someone posts a C++ coding question, others respond.

[snip]

Why should people pay for buying books when we have such a large
community who can help with C++/C

If you're even asking this, then it makes me wonder how you "clear" an
interview. The reason is that posters in this forum do not have the time or
inclination to read "The C++ Programming Language" to you or anyone else.

In other words, there is an enormous amount of material to learn. No-one is
going to learn it all just by reading and posting in this newsgroup. Most of
the discussion that takes place in this forum carries some basic assumptions
that all parties in the discussion have a reasonable level of familiarity with
the language *AND* access to their own reference materials (so that someone
who posts a solution doesn't have to provide a detailed explanation of the
function or class they're using)

Cheers,

 

[Victor Bazarov]

[..]
Why should people pay for buying books when we have such a large
community who can help with C++/C

I think people should pay for books because shop-lifting is against
the law, and convincing relatives that a C++ book makes a good BD or
Xmas present is very difficult.