Interview for software jobs

It's about interview taken by people in software companies. Sometimes I am amazed to see that the interviewer tries to find out the questions which the person sitting on the other side of table should not be able to answer. Isn't it satisfying the interviewer's ugly ego ?

For me, the person should have good programming skills which could be easily judged by asking some tricky questions where he applies his/her mind. Then there should be some puzzles. This is the best way to judge the problem solving attributes of a candidate.

I am no where comfortable if a person is asked like questions ....

"How to write a program to print its own source code as output ?"

Are you insane ?

I doubt the intentions of the interviewer after such questions. At the same time, candidates are smarter as they find a lot of materials available on net which answers these so called tricky questions. Here are few links which could be helpful to serve the need of the hour for candidates -

http://prokutfaq.byethost15.com/Cquine
http://prokutfaq.byethost15.com/CFAQ

http://prokutfaq.byethost15.com/CPPFAQ

Hope it helps some people !!

Gyan....

While surfing the internet, I came through some links which are quite useful...for students..basically a number of e-books available there ( Thanx to orkut ) but then came through an article in TOI about issues originated from orkut kind of sites....

I think, these sites offer more constructive and lesser bullshit.....so started a new thread on blog lines.....I'll post all the Gyanvardhak (Knowledgeable) links...may be, helpful for whomsoever...:)

At first go....the link for a book on awk, a utility which helps me a lot in my jobs...and some time I boast too of knowing it...;)

http://www.dc.turkuamk.fi/docs/gnu/awk/gawk_toc.html

Disclaimer ::

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At the time of adding this link here, I checked few of the pages. If it doesn't work anymore, My intentions must be understood. HAPPY GYANNING !!