Comments on: Interviews on Trivia http://www.monkeyatlarge.com/archives/2008/04/07/interviews-on-trivia/ Random musings on life, technology and other miscellany. Thu, 28 Aug 2008 10:35:19 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: jessica http://www.monkeyatlarge.com/archives/2008/04/07/interviews-on-trivia/#comment-5363 jessica Fri, 11 Apr 2008 16:19:43 +0000 http://www.monkeyatlarge.com/?p=253#comment-5363 This sort of stuff works when you're interviewing to be a doctor, because most of it is memorizing things anyway, it's not like someone's going to throw a sick person in front of you and you get to try out different approaches until you find a solution that compiles and runs smoothly. Unless you're Dr. House. But that kind of makes me afraid of going on interviews because I'm totally not good at that useless trivia crap (like the "what does the volatile keyword mean" question that Eben always asked people) and I sure as heck hope people don't take that to mean that you aren't a decent programmer. This sort of stuff works when you’re interviewing to be a doctor, because most of it is memorizing things anyway, it’s not like someone’s going to throw a sick person in front of you and you get to try out different approaches until you find a solution that compiles and runs smoothly. Unless you’re Dr. House. But that kind of makes me afraid of going on interviews because I’m totally not good at that useless trivia crap (like the “what does the volatile keyword mean” question that Eben always asked people) and I sure as heck hope people don’t take that to mean that you aren’t a decent programmer.

]]> By: Frank Jania http://www.monkeyatlarge.com/archives/2008/04/07/interviews-on-trivia/#comment-5350 Frank Jania Mon, 07 Apr 2008 21:00:31 +0000 http://www.monkeyatlarge.com/?p=253#comment-5350 >> Who memorizes that stuff? 1. People studying for the Java certification. 2. People preparing to interview James 3. No one else in the known universe >> what are the two conditions under which a finally block is not called? I thought of another. When you don't write a finally block. >> Who memorizes that stuff?

1. People studying for the Java certification.
2. People preparing to interview James
3. No one else in the known universe

>> what are the two conditions under which a finally block is not called?

I thought of another. When you don’t write a finally block.

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