As I've worked with more different languages over my career, I've become less and less able to answer those syntax / standard-library questions, simply because there are so many half conflicting memories of other ways to do it.
If the interviewer is any good--big if--they'll mainly be concerned about whether the candidate is making plausible code, regardless of whether it is String.split(s1,s2) or s1.split(s2) or StringUtil.split(s2,s1) ...
Luckily i never had to go through these interviews to get some work.
I'll be hiring programmers next year and only two things matter to me: their code - i want to see how clean they are, how they think, how they structure the logic and flow. And how capable they are for solving a problem. That's it. Nothing else truly matters. Programming is essentially a detective work of high level problem solving. I have couple of questions where i present a problem and ask for a solution - not code, just how they would solve it. And there is no bad answer, but i am looking for a particular way of thinking/solving things, so we're more in sync and that's about it.
As I've worked with more different languages over my career, I've become less and less able to answer those syntax / standard-library questions, simply because there are so many half conflicting memories of other ways to do it.
If the interviewer is any good--big if--they'll mainly be concerned about whether the candidate is making plausible code, regardless of whether it is String.split(s1,s2) or s1.split(s2) or StringUtil.split(s2,s1) ...
Luckily i never had to go through these interviews to get some work. I'll be hiring programmers next year and only two things matter to me: their code - i want to see how clean they are, how they think, how they structure the logic and flow. And how capable they are for solving a problem. That's it. Nothing else truly matters. Programming is essentially a detective work of high level problem solving. I have couple of questions where i present a problem and ask for a solution - not code, just how they would solve it. And there is no bad answer, but i am looking for a particular way of thinking/solving things, so we're more in sync and that's about it.