[live4lax364]

Hey guys, for my graduation project I have to have a few interviews in soon. So If your a programmer, software engineer, or do anything with code, try and answer the following questions. I'd appreciate your help on this! Thanks!

1. Briefly describe your average work day. Is it exciting? Is it new material everyday? Basically, do you like it?

2. Do you find yourself facing programming challenges often, or are you very literate in the languages you code in?

3. What are your responsibilities in workplace?

4. If you could go back in time, would you choose the same occupation?

5. How many hours do you work? Do you take work home with you?

6. How would you describe the pace at your workplace?

7. Cubicle?

8. What motivates you to work efficiently, and with your highest quality?

9. Is your work more team based or is it independent?

10. If you could change three things about your job, what would they be?



Thanks again guys!

[besson3c]

This is more of a questionnaire than an interview, no?

[live4lax364]

Originally Posted by besson3c 

This is more of a questionnaire than an interview, no?

I dont think that parts all that important, but if it helps you answer the questions, then yes it's a questionnaire!

[boy8cookie]

1. Briefly describe your average work day. Is it exciting? Is it new material everyday? Basically, do you like it?
New projects are exciting, finishing & fixing are not.

2. Do you find yourself facing programming challenges often, or are you very literate in the languages you code in?
I'm very literate, and there are still challenges, mostly to do with making things user friendly.

3. What are your responsibilities in workplace?
Develop applications for internal and external use for web, tv & computer use.

4. If you could go back in time, would you choose the same occupation?
Yep.

5. How many hours do you work? Do you take work home with you?
40-60hr/week, no.

6. How would you describe the pace at your workplace?
Chill.

7. Cubicle?
Nope, big office.

8. What motivates you to work efficiently, and with your highest quality?
Interest in the project, progress, money.

9. Is your work more team based or is it independent?
Independent.

10. If you could change three things about your job, what would they be?
Hotter interns. More interns. More creative, less repetitive work.

[besson3c]

I'm a freelance programmer, so I can't really answer several of your questions (nor do I know if you'd want me to

[mattyb]

I'm not a coder, I'm an Oracle DBA, but I have to put up with damned coders daily.

1. Briefly describe your average work day. Is it exciting? Is it new material everyday? Basically, do you like it?

Verify backups, alerts, error messages, do installs, configs etc. Not new everyday no. Sometimes yes, mostly its getting repetitive.

2. Do you find yourself facing programming challenges often, or are you very literate in the languages you code in?

I steal shell, SQL, PL/SQL scripts and modify them to do what I specifically want. If I can't solve something in these languages then I'm not doing my job properly.

3. What are your responsibilities in workplace?

Over 100 Oracle instances to be kept running smoothly for approx 30 different clients. I am one of 2 DBAs, the other is part time.

4. If you could go back in time, would you choose the same occupation?

No.

5. How many hours do you work? Do you take work home with you?

40, sometimes.

6. How would you describe the pace at your workplace?

Can be very calm with periods of extreme tension and clusterf**k.

7. Cubicle?

Office with 3 other people.

8. What motivates you to work efficiently, and with your highest quality?

I'm not that motivated, but if I don't solve something 'properly' then I'll only have to find another solution further down the road.

9. Is your work more team based or is it independent?

Very team based. I have to work with OS people, App Server people, Network people and developers daily. No developers aren't people [ ;-) ]

10. If you could change three things about your job, what would they be?

The managment, the users, the developers.

Sorry to be so negative. I presonally wouldn't recommend getting into coding or IT anymore. Medicine or very specialised engineering yes, but IT no.

[live4lax364]

Thanks so much for your help guys! I loved the responses, haha.