Comments on: RPG: AS/400 question

By: philpl1jb

philpl1jb — Thu, 07 Feb 2013 19:58:20 +0000

I have tried to know absolutely nothing about a great many things, and I have succeeded fairly well.

- Robert Benchley

By: philpl1jb

philpl1jb — Thu, 07 Feb 2013 16:53:35 +0000

So then next person interviewed will have all the answers.
There are boards that post
- interview questions and answers
- test questions and answers
- certification questions and answers
…we haven’t been one of those.

By: Michael Tidmarsh

Michael Tidmarsh — Thu, 07 Feb 2013 14:35:47 +0000

Phil, I've already talked to the user and he told me he was just looking to get more information after the interview to continue learning about AS/400. It was also his first time on the site too.

By: TomLiotta

TomLiotta — Thu, 07 Feb 2013 02:56:20 +0000

That is a possibility, one worth mentioning. — Tom

By: philpl1jb

philpl1jb — Thu, 07 Feb 2013 01:45:12 +0000

The quality of the question doesn’t matter. Your answers don’t matter.The relationship that existed between the interviewer and the interviewee has been damaged by the interiewee posting these questions.

By: TomLiotta

TomLiotta — Wed, 06 Feb 2013 21:48:01 +0000

You’ve just wasted this interviewer’s script of questions.

That might be a good thing. I see a lot of comments about interview questions, and rarely are the questions of much value.

A number of years ago, I went through an interview that included questions from a manager of a RPG developer group. One question asked for a list of op-codes that related to “unstructured programming”. At the time of being asked, I couldn’t think of any.

It was the only item I messed up. And afterwards I asked the manager what the question was after. She mentioned a couple op-codes like CABEQ, and I realized that I hadn’t used the things she mentioned in such a long time that I’d essentially forgotten them.

Does such a question really have much value? How is an answer of “I don’t know” graded?

In general, discussion around an interview question seems valid. A clearly stated ‘answer’ to an interview question wouldn’t be, IMO.

Tom

By: philpl1jb

philpl1jb — Wed, 06 Feb 2013 21:03:48 +0000

Expecting to have this response wiped out.
You’ve just wasted this interviewer’s script of questions. Do you think he/she will trust you or hire you now?

By: WoodEngineer

WoodEngineer — Wed, 06 Feb 2013 16:37:57 +0000

Check out the %parms BIF. I believe it will allow you to gracefully handle the situations descibed in your question.

By: TomLiotta

TomLiotta — Wed, 06 Feb 2013 11:34:09 +0000

Sorry, the question isn’t written in a way that makes sense. Write some pseudo-code that illustrates the calls and some discussion might be possible. — Tom