I am fine today.
Our company is recruiting people now, and I am involved in the interview for those who apply for the post of software development engineer.
One criteria that I would like to ascertain each time is whether the application is really interested in programming.
“Are you interested in programming?” I asked.
“Yes, I like programming very much,” was the response most of the time.
How can I find out whether the application is telling truth?
“Did you do any programming project out of your own initiative in the past?” is the question that an application has to answer if he/she said he/she is interested in programming.
If the answer is negative, it is most likely the application is not telling the truth. Why?
If someone is really interested in programming, then he/she should be doing programming, even when the project is not required by course requirement; else he/she is not really interested in programming.
If an application said that they did do some programming projects based on his/her own initiative, then he/she had to elaborate the detail of the project.
It is quite difficult to find one that is really interested in programming. So the search is going on…
See you next post :-)
2 comments:
Sir,
Personal opinion, I think attitude is more important. Of course, programming lover will perform better but consistency of the performance will be based the attitude.
Yes, attitude is equal important, but it is quite difficult to find out in the interview alone. Some manage to package themselves very well.
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