I hear you:
I like to ask potential programmers to give me a real world example of inheritance...
I also like to ask for a practical example of Multiple inheritance, the answers can be very funny, as well as informative of their real "understanding" of the subject.
Who says interviewing can't be fun, then there's the whiteborad sized true false question with hundreds of parenthesis that ends with ") and False".
I got more, and if you can answer the questions correctly, I don't care what color you are, you're hired.
I was recently interviewing some people for an entry-level Help Desk Position (I'm the "technical" part of the interview....lol). We got some real pistols, but my currect fav was the one who said "Hi, I'm calling about the
F'ing interview?"
I don't get caught speechless very often, but this was one of those times. She (it was a girl, strangely enough) also comment that she "Liked to work on Computers and Shit". I wondered if she took them in the bathroom with her, or just let go right at her desk.
Needless to say, she didn't get the job. Mentioned the interview to a friend and his comment was that she must've been on unemployment, needed to have an interview to keep it, and just threw the interview. If so, that was a good way to do it. LOL!
I'm glad that I don't do as much hiring as I used to (my current company keeps me locked away on projects more and more). I have a hard time suffering fools.
BTW, the "certification" cartoon was posted in the server room at my old company. That, and the "Reorg Boots" series. Classics.
