Re: Basic PHP knowledge test

On Wednesday 19 July 2006 11:12, John Nichel wrote: > Yeah, reading the writing on the wall, I think I'm just going to have to > suck it up, and write it. The worst part of it is, I'm going to have to > be involved in the interview process, and I'm *not* a people person. ;) > > I think I'll go with a few syntax questions (not really worried about > that aspect, cause even after 8 years of doing php, I still hit the > manual a few times a week), maybe have the people write a basic function > or two to check how clean/readable their code it. Possibly also test > how efficient their code would be (like to they call a function inside > of a loop to get a static value that could have been set outside the > loop). Basic db stuff...........ugh, I don't feel like doing this. > > I'll post what I come up with here; maybe we (this list) can combine > ideas and such, and actually put together a pretty good test or two so > we can spare the next poor soul who gets put into this position by MBA > wielding managers. That's pretty much what I did. I went with questions that would show how much they understand from a conceptual level. I don't know many people who don't have www.php.net as a bookmark. I did basic questions to show they understood OOP, recursion, pass-by-reference, etc. I also had to be in the interview. There were a lot of odd moments of silence when people were looking at me to ask some questions. I just wanted him to do the quiz and that was pretty much it ;) -- Ray Hauge Programmer/Systems Administrator American Student Loan Services www.americanstudentloan.com 1.800.575.1099