You call yourself a programmer ??

If yes then try to explain this statement to your brain

some really efficient, extensible,abstract templatized interface ,templatized on the function pointer to some creational policy , possessing user-friendly traits ,providing the client a beautiful mechanism to create the base class pointers to derived classes through createinstance() ,having overloaded operator paran "functor" to hold the previously created function state obtained by parsing a newly dequed XML -serialized message class object , received by a client socket from a remote server thread .............................eventually producing output


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Funniest Job Interview

Very recently a gaming company contacted me back regarding a job opening they had. Well as always the first step is a phone interview so I agreed to it and sent them a schedule of my availability (on Tuesday) that I am available on Thursday and Friday.

The fun starts here:


I get a call on 'Wednesday', the dude asks me these questions in 10 minutes,

1.Do u play MMO games?
2.What kind of games do you play?
3.Are you familiar with C++?
4.What is a constructor?
5.What is the difference between a constructor and a method?
6.Have you ever worked for a gaming company? (Only No I said in the whole process)
7.Have you worked in a build and release environment?
8.Are you familiar with perforce?
9.Did you make integrations in Perforce?

And within 20 minutes I get a letter of rejection. What could have he possible concluded about my technical abilities specially when I did not make a single mistake. Well there was nothing to make a mistake, the questions were so damn simple.
If he wanted gaming industry experience then it was already evident in my resume that I dint have any of that.

Well if you are out there just to kill time then please do not kill mine :P. I am more than happy to interview as apart from getting the job I stand a very good chance of realizing my weaknesses and areas where I need to work harder, but please do not play around.

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