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Programming Job Skills Test?

Posted by Cliff on from the how-well-did-you-do dept.

eclecticgeek asks: "I've recently finished a CS/SD degree at uni and the interviews are starting to come thick and fast. I've yet to have a skills test for any of them, and it's only a matter of time before I do. I'm hoping to do one this week and I will get the choice of language. The position is quite broad and they're more after competent programmers in general, rather than any one specific language. So I'm wondering, have you done a developer skills test? What type of things did you get asked?"

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  1. General Logic by web_boyo_in_sac · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I got this at my last job as part of my second interview, thankfully it was a take home "quiz".

    "You are stranded on a deserted island, thousands of miles from nowhere you are forced to survive with what you have.

    You have a handful of nails, a hatchet with a hammer head, 100 feet of rope, a large lens and a few dozen square yards of sail cloth.

    The island has a variety of birdlife, fishing and crabs, but mostly inedible seeds, very acidic but edible berries and a large grove of coconut palms.

    One side of the island seems to be geothermally active with several hot springs and some sulfer smelling vents, and a large variety of volcanic rock, obsidian and flint along with some hematite and copper deposits.

    Now given this very restricted and scientifically unplausible situation, how would you survive?
    Please take as much time as you need and give as thorough an answer as possible."