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Interviewer wrote: write a program which prints the number of Vowels in a String....not to use any of the String API's.
Correct answer wrote:Why?
Anand Athinarayanan wrote:I started writing the code and used the charAt method of String when the interviewer asked me not to use any of the String API's...
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Ulf Dittmer wrote:but I think there's nothing wrong with interview questions that specify not to use particular approaches...
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Ulf Dittmer wrote:That seems like splitting hairs...
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Winston Gutkowski wrote:but if someone asked me to do something and then, AFTER I started working said:
"Oh, sorry. I want you to do it for 10 cents; not a dollar", or "...only with a hammer and chisel", I suspect I'd be tempted to poke out their eye with my screwdriver.
Henry Wong wrote:In my opinion, this may be a good thing during an interview. The purpose is to show your thinking process -- so you should be talking through what you are thinking while you are doing it...
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Winston Gutkowski wrote:"Well, why didn't you say so at the %@#!& start you idiot."
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Tim Cooke wrote:
Winston Gutkowski wrote:"Well, why didn't you say so at the %@#!& start you idiot."
Interview terminated.
Richard Tookey wrote:
Tim Cooke wrote:
Winston Gutkowski wrote:"Well, why didn't you say so at the %@#!& start you idiot."
Interview terminated.
An important point to remember when being interviewed for a job is that you are also interviewing the interviewers. I did contract work for many years and three times cut interviews short when I thought that the interviewers were asking trivial and/or ridiculous questions that were not even 101 standard and did not test anything except my tolerance. One guy was so p*ssed off with me that rather than just escort me out of the building he had me escorted off the premises flanked by 2 security guards!
Michael D Sims wrote:
java CountVowels <string to count vowels in>
Dave Tolls wrote:
Richard Tookey wrote:An important point to remember when being interviewed for a job is that you are also interviewing the interviewers. I did contract work for many years and three times cut interviews short when I thought that the interviewers were asking trivial and/or ridiculous questions that were not even 101 standard and did not test anything except my tolerance. One guy was so p*ssed off with me that rather than just escort me out of the building he had me escorted off the premises flanked by 2 security guards!
I've been waiting years for an event like that and it's not as if I'm all that tolerant as any interview I have invariably involves a 2 hour drive.
Junilu Lacar wrote:
I might pay off a recruiter to get me an interview like that just before I retire. It'd be a great story to tell my grandkids, if I ever get that chance. But then again, I don't know if I'll ever retire. I hope that when I finally log out, it'll be with both hands on the keyboard!
Junilu Lacar wrote:Hmmm... the Force is strong with this one...
Junilu Lacar wrote:Very clever with the regex solution. But can you make it handle "and sometimes Y and very rarely, W" ?
Michael Sims
Junilu Lacar wrote: But then again, I don't know if I'll ever retire. I hope that when I finally log out, it'll be with both hands on the keyboard!
Michael D Sims wrote:
You mean like this?
Paul Clapham wrote:That would be
for Welsh.
Richard Tookey wrote:
But is 'y' always a vowel in Welsh or does it, as in English, only act like a vowel sometimes?
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Rob Spoor wrote:So year contains 3 vowels?