[Sussex] [OT] Source code at interviews...

Dominic Clay dominic.clay at europrospectus.com
Mon Jan 13 10:10:00 UTC 2003


Hi all,

I hoped I could get some thoughts to help me out here,

I have got an job interview for a development job in a couple of days and
the company in question have requested I:

'bring with you any samples of your work that you consider relevant and that
you would like to review with us'

Do you think I should bring source code? 

Should I bring functioning product (difficult without data!)?

If source code is enough, should I take it on paper, or do I need to take a
laptop, power it up, and show an IDE with my code in it?

I have tried asking the company, but they just said I should do what I feel
necessary.  To me, that should be to show a working system, with code to
back it up, but I don't think I can because of data restrictions, and a
whole program would be huge...!

Needless to say, I need the job, so I have to work out what is my best
approach.  At present my thoughts are I will use print outs and take the
Laptop to show code in an IDE if absolutely required.

Any helpful ideas anyone?
	
Dominic		




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