I'm trying to write a coding challenge for C# for a junior role where I live here in Canada. I was looking for a Junior and was expecting a dozen quality applicants, maybe, but received 200~ applicants in the first week and almost all of them are qualified, many overly so. So to filter out a bunch of them I'm looking to write a question that would be an indicator that someone is familiar with the language, but as I need a code monkey they need not be strong with computer science problems. So I was thinking I should completely forgo asking them to code, and just ask C# trivia. But a better way to do that is to request they write something that requires many concepts of C#.
Are there any places I can go to get questions like that? Or do you have any suggestions?
>Are there any places I can go to get questions like that? Russia
Adam Kelly
Fizz buzz
Aiden Thomas
This. Fizzbuzz them first so you remove the absolute shitters.
Nicholas Myers
always wanted to know a bunch of C# trivia, actually
Dominic Bennett
I had a job application once where they asked me to write an application that pulled data from some earthquake tracking API and display it in a relevant way. I was given a week to do it and submit it to them. I definitely preferred that approach to whiteboard programming in an interview. It's a simple project but it's open ended so people can get a little creative with it. And you'd be judging them based on a complete solution rather than some slapdash pseudocode.
Camden Cruz
Too many people use this for free labour.
Carter Taylor
Fizzbuzz using a LINQ query. That's fairly moderate level c# knowledge and is easily optimized so the real stars can show off. Maybe have them demonstrate the difference between a class and a struct.
James Davis
THIS
This is the interview question I received when interviewing for cisco networks. I promptly told them to fuck off and that I don't work for free.
