[Tutor] Python Interview Questions..

[ian douglas]

If I were interviewing for a Perl or PHP position, then yes. However, if 
I just wanted to see if they knew the algorithm, I'd let them use 
whatever language they were most comfortable in, provided those of us 
interviewing also knew the language.

I think C++ is more common now for data structures and algorithms.

-id


On 05/26/2011 10:34 AM, Prasad, Ramit wrote:
>> When giving an interview, I ask interviewees to write samples of code.
> Would you ask your code samples for a python (or XXX language) position do you have them code it in...C or actually code it in Python (or XXX language)?
>
>> Another favorite of mine was asking a candidate to write a piece of code that took a paragraph of text as a parameter, and while maintaining the order of the sentences, reverse the order of the words in each sentence.
> I ask because this would be fairly easy in Python (admitted my interview solution would have problems with handling punctuations), but probably a lot more complex in something like C.
>
> Is C still the standard interviewing basis for the computer science basics (e.g. data structures, algorithms, etc)?
>
>
> Ramit
>
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