.NET Developer Technical Questions for Non-Technical Interviewers
June 18th, 2010We were recently asked for some questions and answers for a non-technical interviewer to assess technical staff in a bunch of interviews.
Everybody with an ounce of technical knowledge knows this is folly but our client decided to persevere so we felt honour-bound to help out.
Just incase it ever happens to you maybe you can make use of the list? (of course if you’ve got other good ones then shout up!)
- What’s autoboxing? Is it when you automatically turn a stack primitive type into a heap object? or is it a type of specialist car vs. human pugilism sporting event?
- Is a singleton: a hot but lonely lady who lives alone? Or a design pattern which allows a single object to be instantiated once and re-used?
- Generics: is that a language feature for substituting custom types into objects and methods for type safety and maximum re-use, or a medical name for old people?
- What is WPF? A misspelling of WTF? or Windows Presentation Framework?
- Is SQL Server Agent: A member of the British Secret Service or a part of SQL Server that allow intelligent running of jobs?
- A “Select Clause” is… a SQL statement for retrieving data? Or a member of the Santa Clause family? (interviewees get extra points for know that it’s his brother-in-law from his second marriage… )
- The difference between ASP and ASPX? Nothing, but ASPX is just X-tra fast compared to ASP? Interpreted vs. Compiled with a different display and eventing model?
- LINQ is… a character from popular Nintendo games? A nice way of doing list comprehensions and navigating trees and networks in a simple language
Any More?
(footnote: of course we didn’t hand this to the client to ask - although in truth it couldnt’ be too much more comprehensive when it’s a bunch of binary answers)