1) Is a pain in the *&^,
2) Recruitment folks derseve the money they get for it’s a job I wouldn’t want to do,
3) If you made a layout and put few buttons in it doesn’t mean you know QT,
4) If you have no clue what the event loop is or what Qt Object Model there is a lot that you need to know,
5) Design patterns can be learned if you have good command over Comp Sci Fundamentals. There are ppl who can write an essay on each design pattern but cannot ans simple data structure.
6) How does moc,ui work ?.
7) It’s ok if you haven’t peaked inside the QT code and have most of the time worked at API level only. (Like myself). That shouldn’t stop you from exercising your imagination and telling me how the signal slot mechanism is implemented.
So till now it’s been 25 phone calls and all I got is 4 good candidates. 2 don’t want to work for us, the other 2 we don’t want them to work with us. So I am back to square one. I think I will now look for just C++ Developers with sound data structure and Comp Science knowledge. Not rockers just avg guys would do. However that too is tough.
Some ppl just choke in interviews. I have choked once, as in forgot what null looks in C. But I am sure not all of those candidates choked with the questions.
You don’t code in Qt you code in C++.
January 15th, 2010 at 9:23 am
“C++ Developers with sound data structure and Comp Science knowledge” — these are rockstar programmers in India! You have very high expectations
January 16th, 2010 at 6:03 am
well there is a good candidate coming tomorrow I hope he’s good.
January 16th, 2010 at 10:52 am
He was good in the telephonic round.