Adam Bien's Weblog

Wednesday Jun 11, 2008

The Ultimate Interview Question For (not only) Java Developers

Last week I spent 2 days in a workshop Java EE, SE and "cool stuff" in Germany. The team was great and experienced. Although it was a midsize company, both CEOs were still CODERS - and had deep programming experience. It's a Mac / OpenSolaris / Linux shop. They are hiring Java developers now - and a really interested in good programmers. So we chatted a little bit about the interview questions. Actually it was only one: "Tell me, how you started with computing / programming, what was your first machine?". The CEO wanted to hear the story - and filter out the motivations and interests. Although this question is simple and not Java related - it emphasizes the only thing, which matters - the passion. Experience just doesn't matter - the passion and motivation really counts in long term (actually already in few weeks) :-). So stop learning JSR-numbers, and be passionated!


[my tweets]  Rss My book: Real World Java EE - Rethinking Best Practices

Kommentare:

How big is a company for you to consider it "midsize"?

Gesendet von Stefan Tilkov am June 11, 2008 at 01:32 PM CEST #

Stefan,

I guess about 40 developers,

regards,

adam

Gesendet von Adam Bien am June 11, 2008 at 02:02 PM CEST #

Good guess :)

Gesendet von Niels Menke am June 12, 2008 at 10:14 AM CEST #

In which city in Germany is the company located? and, if you may say, what is its name?

Gesendet von Karl am June 13, 2008 at 12:03 PM CEST #

Nice post :)

Gesendet von N, Varun am January 02, 2009 at 05:58 PM CET #

Senden Sie einen Kommentar:
  • HTML Syntax: Ausgeschaltet
Interviews/About
My Recent Book
Java One 2009
CommunityOne East N.Y.C
JavaONE 2008 Interview
Search
...the last 150 posts
...the last 10 comments
greenfire.dev.java.net
Links
my.netbeans.org
Visitors
License