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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!
Posted at 09:58AM Jun 11, 2008 by Adam Bien in Fun | Kommentare[5]
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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 #