Comments on Regular Expressions: My Java Developer Interview Questions

@barsoomcore - I still do a variant of the parking...

2010-02-27T21:45:11.457-08:00

@barsoomcore - I still do a variant of the parking lot question where I play the 'business person' and let them gather requirements from me. You're right, it's always interesting to see how people approach it!

I'm still getting a lot of use out of these qu...

2010-02-27T16:14:10.016-08:00

I'm still getting a lot of use out of these questions, dude.

Also still find "the parking lot" question hugely revealing. You probably recall it, but for those just tuning in:

"Get up to the whiteboard, grab a pen and diagram the workings of a parking lot using object-oriented design. That is, design a system that can model the activity of a parking lot, using some sort of more-or-less UML-y notation (boxes, lines, etc)."

Of course what really makes it fun is throwing new requirements at them during their efforts to design it. Well, fun for me.

That's a great list of questions. Asking some...

2010-02-24T19:46:13.304-08:00

That's a great list of questions. Asking someone to contrast two things is much less likely to trigger a learned answer than just asking them to describe something.