Thursday, April 30, 2009

Jump-starting a tech job search

From Infoworld, April 30, 2009...

Want to land a software developer job at financial giant Bloomberg? If so, you'd better be ready to answer questions like this: "What is a singleton? How would you code it in C++? How can you make it thread safe?" The right answer could help win a job that pays $91,000 a year.

The folks at Empirix, a development tools maker in Massachusetts might ask you this:

{
object* p=NULL;
p = new object();
p->foo()
delete p;
}
// ?? Whats wrong with above

Landing a job in this economy is tough -- so who wouldn't want to find a strategy that could make a difference? Not surprisingly, various entrepreneurial types are moving to fill that need by providing tools and information designed to help you and help themselves find a profitable business.

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