Re: Lovefilm, yes or no?
Smylers wrote: Seems a little harsh to reject people for that. Some people forget an interview goes two ways - they "measure" you and vice versa. I remember having an interview in the south of france for a MPP provider and after a lot of "trick" questions and technical/business glitz I asked... "Given market conditions, what do you consider is your competitive advantage?" I never did get an answer and ended up paying my own travel costs :-( Though on t'other hand I can't remember ever having needed to know _any_ digits of pi for work purposes, so perhaps it's fair ... When I worked at Cray we had a Y-MP (M90) available for dev work. Just after one of the big customers had used spare cycles to calc the biggest prime number yet calc'ed - BTD and a couple of sysadmins then left the M90 running overnight (a six hour block) to generate the next TWO numbers! I had a copy of the printouts (132 column fanfold in a box) for a good few years. I also remember anotehr co-worked at Cray having the phone system tweaked so that he could dial out on a vast range of unused numbers. This was when captial radio would only accept competition caller whose number ended in certain digits. Having a 4 digit MSN block was seriously handy for that compo! Jacqui
Re: Lovefilm, yes or no?
On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 11:38 AM, James Laver wrote: > By that logic you could well be turned down for jobs for knowing other > programming languages that they don't use. Or about literature or a near > infinite[1] list of other things > > --James > [1] I'm fully aware of the meaning of that, which is perhaps another > reason I wouldn't be hired by Victoria or Smylers. Agreed, and I probably wouldn't want to work at a place that rejects people for that reason anyway. -- Eden Cardim Need help with your Catalyst or DBIx::Class project? Code Monkeyhttp://www.shadowcat.co.uk/catalyst/ Shadowcat Systems Ltd. Want a managed development or deployment platform? http://edenc.vox.com/http://www.shadowcat.co.uk/servers/
Re: Lovefilm, yes or no?
On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 01:06:02PM +0100, Smylers wrote: > > Seems a little harsh to reject people for that. > > Though on t'other hand I can't remember ever having needed to know _any_ > digits of pi for work purposes, so perhaps it's fair ... By that logic you could well be turned down for jobs for knowing other programming languages that they don't use. Or about literature or a near infinite[1] list of other things --James [1] I'm fully aware of the meaning of that, which is perhaps another reason I wouldn't be hired by Victoria or Smylers.
Re: Lovefilm, yes or no?
On 16 April 2010 14:44, David Cantrell wrote: > On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 12:06:43PM +0100, Victoria Conlan wrote: > >> I don't know about anyone else here, but the only reason I would ever ask >> that question would be to turn down anyone who claimed to know more than 3. > > Those three being 2, 2 and 7? :-) No, just 3 ;) -- Jasper
Re: Lovefilm, yes or no?
On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 12:06:43PM +0100, Victoria Conlan wrote: > I don't know about anyone else here, but the only reason I would ever ask > that question would be to turn down anyone who claimed to know more than 3. Those three being 2, 2 and 7? :-) -- David Cantrell | Bourgeois reactionary pig " In My Egotistical Opinion, most people's ... programs should be indented six feet downward and covered with dirt. " --Blair P. Houghton
Re: Lovefilm, yes or no?
On 16 April 2010 13:20, Victoria Conlan wrote: > > I don't know about anyone else here, but the only reason I would ever ask >>> that question would be to turn down anyone who claimed to know more than >>> 3. >>> >> I'd make that 5 (since it's what's taught at school here) but yeah, I was >> thinking the same thing :) >> > > Thank you, you made me feel a lot better about myself. :-D > > > For reference: >> http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=1777#comic >> > As it is Friday, and hence pie day (The Coal Hole, The Strand): http://www.pi-world-ranking-list.com/ Cheers, Peter http://perl.dragonstaff.co.uk
Re: Lovefilm, yes or no?
I don't know about anyone else here, but the only reason I would ever ask that question would be to turn down anyone who claimed to know more than 3. I'd make that 5 (since it's what's taught at school here) but yeah, I was thinking the same thing :) Thank you, you made me feel a lot better about myself. :-D For reference: http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=1777#comic I giggled way more at that than I should have!
Re: Lovefilm, yes or no?
> Though on t'other hand I can't remember ever having needed to know _any_ > digits of pi for work purposes, so perhaps it's fair ... One 3D CAD system I worked on did have a math library with a #define PI... which I fixed to have better precision.[1] Mike [1] Yes, I know pi to 26 DP. Why do you ask?
Re: Lovefilm, yes or no?
Victoria Conlan writes: > > At that time I could remember about 100 digits so I had a dilemma, > > would I do better in the interview if I recited all 100 or perhaps > > 10? > > I don't know about anyone else here, but the only reason I would ever > ask that question would be to turn down anyone who claimed to know > more than 3. Well you can get the first 9 digits just by wishing: "How I wish I could recollect pi easily today" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piphilology Seems a little harsh to reject people for that. Though on t'other hand I can't remember ever having needed to know _any_ digits of pi for work purposes, so perhaps it's fair ... Smylers -- Watch 'Only Connect' series 3 (some questions by me) on iPlayer until Monday evening: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00lskhg
Re: Lovefilm, yes or no?
On Apr 16, 2010, at 13:06 , Victoria Conlan wrote: >> At that time I could remember about 100 digits so I had a dilemma, would I >> do better in the interview if I recited all 100 or perhaps 10? > > I don't know about anyone else here, but the only reason I would ever ask > that question would be to turn down anyone who claimed to know more than 3. I'd make that 5 (since it's what's taught at school here) but yeah, I was thinking the same thing :) For reference: http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=1777#comic -- Robin Berjon - http://berjon.com/
Re: Lovefilm, yes or no?
At that time I could remember about 100 digits so I had a dilemma, would I do better in the interview if I recited all 100 or perhaps 10? I don't know about anyone else here, but the only reason I would ever ask that question would be to turn down anyone who claimed to know more than 3. Fortunaetly I don't do interviews very often. :-)
Re: Lovefilm, yes or no?
How this thread sooo went off topic! LF. Like most places there are good / bad practices, awful / good code, etc. It is definitely a development influenced company. The HQ is in the middle of nowhere which some might find socially restrictive. If I were forced to pick a single bad point it would be that there are too many employees with "architect" in their job title*. * some many argue that >0 is too many On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 11:24 AM, Pinky Weaselly wrote: > > Sorry for anon email, but I don't want to announce to my employer that I've > been approached by lovefilm about a job. > > The recruiter started with "if I said 'lovefilm', would you say 'no'?" > > Alarm bells are ringing. Can anyone say if they're a good employer, from a > Perl perspective? You can email me privately if you like. > > Pinky > > _ > http://clk.atdmt.com/UKM/go/19780/direct/01/ > We want to hear all your funny, exciting and crazy Hotmail stories. Tell us > now > -- U # MC4L 2010:: Holla @ Ur Bowy # Find yourself: http://www.flickr.com/photos/66781...@n00/
Re: Lovefilm, yes or no?
On Wednesday 14 April 2010 17:46:30 Bob Walker wrote: > On Wed, 14 Apr 2010, ian wrote: > > On 14/04/2010 14:05, Peter Edwards wrote: > > > > I was once asked at an interview 'how many digits of PI do you know?'. > > enough. although id much rather cancel pi out. > which is why it is useful to know that pi*(10^7) seconds = 363.610261 days > or approximately 1 year. > > hmm pie. http://isitpie.com/ Or, perhaps more easily remembered, pi megaseconds is a millicentury. Jonathan.
Re: Lovefilm, yes or no?
I'm not sure if that interview question thread proves you are all deranged nutters, maths geniuses or scarily good programmers. Probably a bit of each. Jeez, where has my "PHP For Beginners" book gone, it's not too late for a career in a meejabollix agency. Cheers, Peter On Apr 14, 2010 10:53 PM, "Ruud H.G. van Tol" wrote: ian wrote: > I was once asked at an interview 'how many digits of PI do you know?'. If phrased like that, I would ask "Decimal?" and then answer "ten", 0..9. -- Ruud
Re: Lovefilm, yes or no?
ian wrote: I was once asked at an interview 'how many digits of PI do you know?'. If phrased like that, I would ask "Decimal?" and then answer "ten", 0..9. -- Ruud
Re: Lovefilm, yes or no?
On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 07:42:59PM +0200, Philip Newton wrote: > On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 19:31, David Cantrell wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 07:16:18PM +0200, Abigail wrote: > >> On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 04:23:48PM +0100, ian wrote: > >> > I was once asked at an interview 'how many digits of PI do you know?'. > >> "All of them - I just can't remember the order". > > An infinitely long sequence of them, I just don't know where it starts. > Ah - you have a proof that pi is normal, then! Just what > mathematicians have been searching for for ages! I thought it had been proven. Ah well. -- David Cantrell | Reality Engineer, Ministry of Information Do not be afraid of cooking, as your ingredients will know and misbehave -- Fergus Henderson
Re: Lovefilm, yes or no?
On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 10:29, Abigail wrote: > On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 09:47:14AM -0700, David Alban wrote: >> On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 9:36 AM, Merijn Broeren wrote: >> > Does 128! end in a zero? If so, how many? >> >> i would think that any factorial N! would end in zero if N > 9. but i >> have no idea how many zeroes are at the end of <128!>. > > > 5! multiples 2 and 5. > > The trick is to count the number of factors of 5. It's worth noting explicitly that those factors of 5 work to create trailing zeros because there is an excess of spare factors of 2 to make 2*5=10. > floor (128 / 5) + floor (128 / 25) + floor (128 / 125) = 25 + 5 + 1 = 31. > > > $ perl -E'$,="*";say 1..128'|bc|perl -0ne's/\D+//g;print/0+$/g'|wc -c > 31 Nice. Mathematica, Sum[Floor[128/5^k], {k, Floor[Log[5, 128]]}] 31 Log[5, 128] is the log base 5 of 128, i.e. the number you need to raise 5 to to get 128 (=3.01...). The integer component of that (Floor[]) gives you then the number of factors of five in 128 (=3). The bit in the Sum[] is an iterator (k=1..3) creating a list {25, 5, 1} whose sum is 31. Paul > Abigail >
Re: Lovefilm, yes or no?
On 14 Apr 2010, at 17:47, David Alban wrote: > i would think that any factorial N! would end in zero if N > 9. but i > have no idea how many zeroes are at the end of <128!>. Well, just give it a crack then. That's the point of the question, to see how people think. This one's particularly good because it's got several obvious answers, all of which are wrong, and it shows how hard people think. The first thing to note is that multiples of ten have one zero, multiples of a hundred have two zeroes, and so on. So you are looking for all of the multiples of ten in the factorial. The traps are not noticing that 2*5 = 10 - which you fell into - and that 10*10 = 100. The general idea is to realise that a factorial is also the product of the prime factors of each number. That is: N! = 1 * 2 * 3 * 4 * 5 * 6 ... = 1 * 2 * 3 * 2*2 * 5 * 2*3 ... = 2**a * 3**b * 5**c * 7**d ... And then to realise that a >= b >= c >= d, and so you care about the value of c (as there will always be enough twos to multiply by all the fives you can find to make tens.) So, there are int(128/5) = 25 multiples of five, int(128/5**2) = 5 multiples of 25, and int(128/5**3) multiples of 125. So c = 25 + 5 + 1 = 31. So I reckon that 128! has 31 zeroes on the end. Double-checking on a computer: >>> reduce(lambda x, y: x * y, range(1,129)) % 10**31 0L >>> reduce(lambda x, y: x * y, range(1,129)) % 10**32 8000L There is probably some neat trick with logarithms to calculate the number of zeros at the end of arbitrary N!, but I'm not a mathematician.
Re: Lovefilm, yes or no?
On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 19:31, David Cantrell wrote: > On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 07:16:18PM +0200, Abigail wrote: >> On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 04:23:48PM +0100, ian wrote: >> > I was once asked at an interview 'how many digits of PI do you know?'. >> "All of them - I just can't remember the order". > > An infinitely long sequence of them, I just don't know where it starts. Ah - you have a proof that pi is normal, then! Just what mathematicians have been searching for for ages! Cheers, Philip -- Philip Newton
Re: Lovefilm, yes or no?
On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 07:16:18PM +0200, Abigail wrote: > On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 04:23:48PM +0100, ian wrote: > > I was once asked at an interview 'how many digits of PI do you know?'. > "All of them - I just can't remember the order". An infinitely long sequence of them, I just don't know where it starts. -- David Cantrell | even more awesome than a panda-fur coat I remember when computers were frustrating because they did exactly what you told them to. That seems kinda quaint now. -- JD Baldwin, in the Monastery
Re: Lovefilm, yes or no?
On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 09:47:14AM -0700, David Alban wrote: > On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 9:36 AM, Merijn Broeren wrote: > > Does 128! end in a zero? If so, how many? > > i would think that any factorial N! would end in zero if N > 9. but i > have no idea how many zeroes are at the end of <128!>. 5! multiples 2 and 5. The trick is to count the number of factors of 5. floor (128 / 5) + floor (128 / 25) + floor (128 / 125) = 25 + 5 + 1 = 31. $ perl -E'$,="*";say 1..128'|bc|perl -0ne's/\D+//g;print/0+$/g'|wc -c 31 Abigail
Re: Lovefilm, yes or no?
On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 04:23:48PM +0100, ian wrote: > On 14/04/2010 14:05, Peter Edwards wrote: > ... >> >> I know a couple of people not on this list, one who joined in the last 6 >> months and seems happy enough there, another who interviewed for a perm job >> a couple of weeks ago and didn't get it. You takes your pick... >> >> Funniest interview question I heard of recently (not Lovefilm) was: >> "What's two to the power 14" >> As in, work out the answer there and then, not type in perl -e 'print >> 2**14, "\n"' as eny fule kno >> >> Cheers, Peter > > I was once asked at an interview 'how many digits of PI do you know?'. "All of them - I just can't remember the order". Abigail
Re: Lovefilm, yes or no?
On 14 April 2010 17:47, David Alban wrote: > i would think that any factorial N! would end in zero if N > 9. but i > have no idea how many zeroes are at the end of <128!>. Surely you mean if N > 4?
Re: Lovefilm, yes or no?
i would think that any factorial N! would end in zero if N > 9. but i have no idea how many zeroes are at the end of <128!>. On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 9:36 AM, Merijn Broeren wrote: > Does 128! end in a zero? If so, how many? -- Live in a world of your own, but always welcome visitors.
Re: Lovefilm, yes or no?
Quoting Peter Edwards (pe...@dragonstaff.co.uk): > > Funniest interview question I heard of recently (not Lovefilm) was: > "What's two to the power 14" > As in, work out the answer there and then, not type in perl -e 'print > 2**14, "\n"' as eny fule kno > Does 128! end in a zero? If so, how many? It's a quite a nice question to walk through to the end and it might surprise you if you haven't seen it before. Cheers, -- Merijn Broeren | We take risks, we know we take them. Therefore, when things | come out against us, we have no cause for complaint. | - Scott, last journal entry, march 1912
Re: Lovefilm, yes or no?
On Wed, 14 Apr 2010, ian wrote: On 14/04/2010 14:05, Peter Edwards wrote: I was once asked at an interview 'how many digits of PI do you know?'. enough. although id much rather cancel pi out. which is why it is useful to know that pi*(10^7) seconds = 363.610261 days or approximately 1 year. hmm pie. http://isitpie.com/ -- bob walker buses should be purple and bendy
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On 14 April 2010 16:23, ian wrote: > I was once asked at an interview 'how many digits of PI do you know?'. I would claim to know digits 100 to 150 and ask them to check them for me as I recited...
Re: Lovefilm, yes or no?
On 14/04/2010 14:05, Peter Edwards wrote: ... I know a couple of people not on this list, one who joined in the last 6 months and seems happy enough there, another who interviewed for a perm job a couple of weeks ago and didn't get it. You takes your pick... Funniest interview question I heard of recently (not Lovefilm) was: "What's two to the power 14" As in, work out the answer there and then, not type in perl -e 'print 2**14, "\n"' as eny fule kno Cheers, Peter I was once asked at an interview 'how many digits of PI do you know?'. At that time I could remember about 100 digits so I had a dilemma, would I do better in the interview if I recited all 100 or perhaps 10? Another fact that sticks in my mind, and has been useful for the odd meeting where someone wants a back of fag-packet calulation, is that one million seconds is 11 days 13 hours 46 minutes and 40 seconds. (and that 10,000,000 seconds is 115 days 17 hours 46 minutes and 40 seconds). Regards Ian
Re: Lovefilm, yes or no?
On 14 Apr 2010, at 16:06, Simon Cozens wrote: > I guess I should be the first to point out that, not only are there > people from Lovefilm reading this list, there are people from the BBC > reading it too. I /think/ that's just the Reith proxy - so it doesn't narrow it down too much :) Wasn't me - that narrows it down a tad more. -- Andy Armstrong, Hexten
Re: Lovefilm, yes or no?
On 14 April 2010 16:06, Simon Cozens wrote: > > I guess I should be the first to point out that, not only are there > people from Lovefilm reading this list, there are people from the BBC > reading it too. > Not many people have access to the proxy logs to look up Purple Bunny's X-Originating-IP, and anyway isn't having your employees push off for a more tempting job all part and parcel of working life? Cheers, Peter
Re: Lovefilm, yes or no?
On 14/04/2010 11:24, Pinky Weaselly wrote: > Sorry for anon email, but I don't want to announce to my employer that I've > been approached by lovefilm about a job. I guess I should be the first to point out that, not only are there people from Lovefilm reading this list, there are people from the BBC reading it too. -- The best book on programming for the layman is "Alice in Wonderland"; but that's because it's the best book on anything for the layman. - Alan Perlis
Re: Lovefilm, yes or no?
On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 04:14:17PM +0200, Jonathan McKeown wrote: > On Wednesday 14 April 2010 15:05:51 Peter Edwards wrote: > > > Funniest interview question I heard of recently (not Lovefilm) was: > > "What's two to the power 14" > > As in, work out the answer there and then > > 2^10 (1024) is roughly 10^3, so 2^4 x 2^10 is roughly 16 thousand. If you > can't remember the power of two nearest to 16,000, you might have to work out > 16x24 and add it on - 240 plus 12x12. > Well I was going to point out that 2^10 is 1K (i.e. 1024) and therefore 2^14 is 16K but resisted - until now. I feel I should also contribute: 16*24 = 16*(25-1) = 4*4*25-16 = 400-16 = 384. Therefore 2^14 = 16384. QED > It's a slightly odd question, i suppose, but not exactly hard. Perhaps i'm an > old fart, but I'd expect most programmers to be able to answer that almost > without pausing for breath. > > (And I see Nick Clark has already answered while I was typing). > > Jonathan
Re: Lovefilm, yes or no?
On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 04:14:17PM +0200, Jonathan McKeown wrote: > 2^10 (1024) is roughly 10^3, so 2^4 x 2^10 is roughly 16 thousand. If you > can't remember the power of two nearest to 16,000, you might have to work out > 16x24 and add it on - 240 plus 12x12. > > It's a slightly odd question, i suppose, but not exactly hard. Perhaps i'm an > old fart, but I'd expect most programmers to be able to answer that almost > without pausing for breath. If hexadecimal is acceptable, then I could answer 0x4000 straight away. In decimal, I'd have to figger it out, as 65536 / 2 / 2. But who uses decimal for constants like that? -- David Cantrell | Hero of the Information Age Irregular English: ladies glow; gentlemen perspire; brutes, oafs and athletes sweat
Re: Lovefilm, yes or no?
On 14 Apr 2010, at 22:03, Nicholas Clark wrote: > On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 02:05:51PM +0100, Peter Edwards wrote: > >> Funniest interview question I heard of recently (not Lovefilm) was: >> "What's two to the power 14" >> As in, work out the answer there and then, not type in perl -e 'print >> 2**14, "\n"' as eny fule kno > > 16384 > > (I admit that I did check that I can remember it correctly.) > > > I'm starting to think that that's actually quite a good question really. My Google phone interview (at 3am FFS) did a LOT of bit shifting type questions. -- Dave HodgkinsonMSN: daveh...@hotmail.com Site: http://www.davehodgkinson.com UK: +44 7768 490620 Blog: http://www.davehodgkinson.com/blog Photos: http://www.flickr.com/photos/davehodg
Re: Lovefilm, yes or no?
On Wednesday 14 April 2010 15:05:51 Peter Edwards wrote: > Funniest interview question I heard of recently (not Lovefilm) was: > "What's two to the power 14" > As in, work out the answer there and then 2^10 (1024) is roughly 10^3, so 2^4 x 2^10 is roughly 16 thousand. If you can't remember the power of two nearest to 16,000, you might have to work out 16x24 and add it on - 240 plus 12x12. It's a slightly odd question, i suppose, but not exactly hard. Perhaps i'm an old fart, but I'd expect most programmers to be able to answer that almost without pausing for breath. (And I see Nick Clark has already answered while I was typing). Jonathan
Re: Lovefilm, yes or no?
On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 02:05:51PM +0100, Peter Edwards wrote: > Funniest interview question I heard of recently (not Lovefilm) was: > "What's two to the power 14" > As in, work out the answer there and then, not type in perl -e 'print > 2**14, "\n"' as eny fule kno 16384 (I admit that I did check that I can remember it correctly.) I'm starting to think that that's actually quite a good question really. Either they get it wrong Or they get it right, but use paper to work it out Or they get it right in their head and even for the third case, how fast they answer is useful. Did they just know it? Did they start from 65536 and halve twice? Or did it take more mental arithmetic than that. (Among other things, it's the address of the first byte of RAM on a ZX Spectrum) Nicholas Clark
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On 14 April 2010 13:19, ian wrote: > There might be less comments to this thread if the people who have *not* > been tested and rejected leave a comment. > > However, as a matter of interest, the test I took was the 'pelmanism' game > (turning over cards to find a match). > > Has anyone been given a different test? > I know a couple of people not on this list, one who joined in the last 6 months and seems happy enough there, another who interviewed for a perm job a couple of weeks ago and didn't get it. You takes your pick... Funniest interview question I heard of recently (not Lovefilm) was: "What's two to the power 14" As in, work out the answer there and then, not type in perl -e 'print 2**14, "\n"' as eny fule kno Cheers, Peter
Re: Lovefilm, yes or no?
There might be less comments to this thread if the people who have *not* been tested and rejected leave a comment. However, as a matter of interest, the test I took was the 'pelmanism' game (turning over cards to find a match). Has anyone been given a different test? Regards Ian On 14/04/2010 11:50, Dominic Thoreau wrote: On 14 April 2010 11:24, Pinky Weaselly wrote: Sorry for anon email, but I don't want to announce to my employer that I've been approached by lovefilm about a job. The recruiter started with "if I said 'lovefilm', would you say 'no'?" Alarm bells are ringing. Can anyone say if they're a good employer, from a Perl perspective? You can email me privately if you like. I don't know what it's like to actually work for them - I did a phone interview, and their test (basically, write code fast, on deadline).[1] But they didn't hire me. After talking with previous colleagues (who are better perl devs than I am - and didn't get hired either) I get the opinion that they're trying to hire the elite - and almost to the point of being snobbish about it. As usual, YMMV Dominic [1] Without going into specifics of the task involved, they will ask you to nominate a time in the future. At that time, their system will arrange for an email to be delivered to you with a programming assignment, which you have one hour to complete and return.
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On 14 Apr 2010, at 11:50, Dominic Thoreau wrote: > But they didn't hire me. After talking with previous colleagues (who > are better perl devs than I am - and didn't get hired either) I get > the opinion that they're trying to hire the elite - and almost to the > point of being snobbish about it. I also didn't get hired, but the impression I got was that they wanted people who were as good DBAs as they were Perl programmers. (My SQL wasn't up to scratch). The location is also a bit out of the way (over in Acton IIRC). -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk
Re: Lovefilm, yes or no?
On 14 April 2010 11:24, Pinky Weaselly wrote: > > Sorry for anon email, but I don't want to announce to my employer that I've > been approached by lovefilm about a job. > > The recruiter started with "if I said 'lovefilm', would you say 'no'?" > > Alarm bells are ringing. Can anyone say if they're a good employer, from a > Perl perspective? You can email me privately if you like. I don't know what it's like to actually work for them - I did a phone interview, and their test (basically, write code fast, on deadline).[1] But they didn't hire me. After talking with previous colleagues (who are better perl devs than I am - and didn't get hired either) I get the opinion that they're trying to hire the elite - and almost to the point of being snobbish about it. As usual, YMMV Dominic [1] Without going into specifics of the task involved, they will ask you to nominate a time in the future. At that time, their system will arrange for an email to be delivered to you with a programming assignment, which you have one hour to complete and return. -- Noli immiscere te draconum rebus nam fragilis es dentibus et cum garo bene sapis.
Lovefilm, yes or no?
Sorry for anon email, but I don't want to announce to my employer that I've been approached by lovefilm about a job. The recruiter started with "if I said 'lovefilm', would you say 'no'?" Alarm bells are ringing. Can anyone say if they're a good employer, from a Perl perspective? You can email me privately if you like. Pinky _ http://clk.atdmt.com/UKM/go/19780/direct/01/ We want to hear all your funny, exciting and crazy Hotmail stories. Tell us now