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![the sounds: //sample ansvers from various interviews
178//Question: Write code to find out if a nunber is odd.
179 //Candidate: Qk give me a minute sounds of typing
180 /Candidate: My ansver is voice changes noticeably from speaking-voice to reading-voice
//Question: Find all the odd numbers betveen 0-100
182 //Me suspecting that the candi
183 I/Candidate: It means that ve find the percentage of i in 2
googled it*: ok, and can you explain to me what does that line mean?
2 Why are ve f
14
//I walked the candidate through this code carefully
single"in the last two lines. This is a candidate who had 8 years total experience
twice. There are no typos, not the " 1", and not the
186 //Me "with a nice voice but nalicious intent* : I understand that it is complicated. Have you ever used this
tore
//Candidate "with obvious reliet: No,never! This is my first tine using it
18 /Question: Find all the odd numbers betveen 0-100
100;
rtil)
193
194
//Question: Find all the odd numbers between 0-100
//Candidate: I am sorry, I have forgotten the exact formala for finding odd numbers
23 //candidate said that finding only the odd numbers was too difficult, and this nethod will find ALL numbers, so
196 /Candidate: I understand, but I cannot recall the formala, so I cannot find these numbers
27
//Question: Find all the odd numbers betveen 0-100
200 /Question: Can you tell me about your professional history?
//candidate: I try my absolute best to make ธure that my code does not have too many errors before I take it
29
30
the odd numbers between 0 and
205 /Question: Count down from 700 to 200 in decrements of
coreot'hinunitt?
completely
the odd numbers between 0-100
211 I/Me: And if I fixed the syntax errors, will it work then?
213
214
//Me: And why is that2
//Candidate: It has logic errors, too
you like
//Candidate: I have been programming for 10 years. 5 years as a hobby, and 5 professionally. know PHP, Ruby
JS (including both node, angular), MongoDB, Myso, PostgresoL, and more
/Me: Nice. What have
//candidate: In the 5 years where I worked professionally, I have worked in 4 companies as a webdex. I have
multiples sites up, all done from scratch. Some I developed solo, and sone as part of a team. I do both
front-end and back-end development. I am ready to tackle any challenge!
/Me: ok. using your language of choice, can you find all the odd numbers between 0-1002
7 //Question: Find all the odd numbers betwveen
0-100
you used your skills for?
50 I/I asked the candidate what this code was supposed to do, and the candidate replied: "I do not want to ansver
1 //So I tried again. Same candidate, next question: Find the sun of all integers betveen 0-100
3 //Me:"Ok and if I wanted this done in Javascript?
more than this."
222 //Candidate: tries for about 3 minutes
223 I/Candidate: I cannot do this. My skill in mathematics is not high enough
6 I/This was the most experienced candidate, with 19 years of professional experience. Nineteen, no typo. This
226
candidate was programming professionally before many of you were born.
/This situation happened with two different candidates. Their responses were worded differently, but the
was the same
//Me: Ok, I want to ask you a couple of programming questions. Do you have a paper and pen or pencil with you?
0 //Question: Assuming you have two integers, x and y, with y bigger than x. Sum all the numbers from x to y
230 //Me: ok.Using your preferred programming language, find all the odd nunbers between 0 and 1002
Example: If x is 1, and y is 5, then sum 1+2+3+4+5
232 /Me: Yes. Write your code down, and when you are done, read it to me, and then ve can go through it
233 //Candidate: But that is impossible! How can I write code without using a computer?
4+i
237
//Question: Find all the odd numbers betveen 0-100. Note that this was a phone interview
67
//What is happening here? Your guess is as good as mine. Candidate had no idea what this code was supposed to do
239 IMe: I am trying to test your programming skills, not your Google-search skills
240 //Candidate: Baha, right! But İf 1 use Google, how will you know?
241 /Me: I wil1 ask you similar questions in the face-to-face interview
1 //Question: Count down from 700 to 200 in decrements of 13
246
//One of the worst interviews that I had, that made me feel genuinely bad, was this one.I tried to capture the
mood of how it went, as I did not get to see any code Some of the actions I describe are what I assume
happened on the other end of the phone, based on the sounds that I heard
//Me: Greetings! Thanks for letting me interview you. Are you ready and prepared?
247
249
//Me: Alright! Let us start. *İntroductions and a bit of relaxing amantalk, candidate is very cool. Qk, so
your resume lists about 5 different programming languages.Are you good in all of them
/candidate: I am good in Javaacript and PHP, and ak in Java
81 //Out of curiosity, I asked: "Why is the answer a double?"
82 //Candidate "Because it needs to store the value taken from _two variables.
so which is your f
252 //Candidate: Definitely avascript! I did a lot of work in Javascript!
253 /Me: That is good. Can I ask you a question or two in Tavascript
6 //Make a standard deck of cards. Shuftle the deck, and draw two cards at random. Display the two cards
Are you
256 //candidate: Yes, yes. I am on the line!
ask you a questi
can try my best to ansver
gentle gloves, ve are not trying to break the candidate
Qk. so you know what odd
are, right?
for (let count
Yes Yes,I know odd number
261 /Me: ok. so ny question is this. Using your favourite language, Javascript, can you find all the odd numbers
8 //This was slowly and painstak
used for the second part which only had two cards, while no loop was used for the
cards... but I decided against
the odd numbers
ok. Why don't you t
then read
fter
you are
//Candidate 'excited and breathless: YES! Yes,yes!
scribbling/scratching for about two minutes, then some furious scribbling for a minute, then the
fast breathing, but no seribbling sounds
1 1/9uestion: Find all the odd numbers betuween
03
05
assuming
x
and
lieve the candidate put the phone down, and started writing. I could hear some gentl
y,
someone crossing out
many lines
on a paper. Then came a minute
/Candidate "voice completely broken
//Me "making a fatal error of judgement by asking: Is everything ak
the odd numbers...uhh
think..L
the odd... the odd nunbers
alm, polite email, much later that
this time I regret that I must decline the
perplexing, let me
Candidate takes the last
once to make
not, then you add
you add
odd, then you add 2
Disregarding the sundry minor errors in the code, the logic behind
functional, but
ribly inefficient
two cards at random. Display the two cards
27 var arr-i,2,3, 4,5, 6,7,,9,10,.0K'
ar arrl
ar two-
36
t (pos
arr pos
50
51
52
ition] push (arrti
for (wamath
finalArr
var indexeeArr.indexof (nevArrti] val
72 //Behold this masterpiece! Read it slow and savour every 1ine, for beauties like this come once
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![the sounds: Christmas in the trenches, 1914
[Colorized] During WWI on Christmas Eve, the sounds of rifles firing and shells exploding began to fade away as soldiers began to declare their own unofficial truce. The country’s participating in the war refused to create any sort of official cease fire, so the soldiers took it into their own hands. Starting on Christmas Eve, British and German troops sang Christmas carols to each other across the lines. On Christmas Day, German soldiers began to emerge from their trenches and approach Allied lines across no-man’s-land, calling out “Merry Christmas” in their enemy’s native tongues. At first the Allied soldiers feared it was a trick, but seeing the German soldiers unarmed, they also began to emerge from their trenches and began shaking hands with German soldiers and even exchanging gifts like cigarettes and plum pudding. This Christmas Truce was unfortunately the last of it’s kind. Future cease fire attempts were stopped by officers with threats of disciplinary action.](https://pics.conservativememes.com/christmas-in-the-trenches-1914-colorized-during-wwi-on-christmas-41638287.png)
![the sounds: MARIAH CAREY
Not Another
White Girl
Trying To
Sing Black'
Daughter of Black father
and White mother is
hottest new artist
By Lynn Norment
ARIAH CAREY has a score to settle. Last
summer, soon after her debut recording
started racing up the record charts, she says a
music critic referred to her as "another White
girl trying to sing Black."
Carey, indisputably the hottest new artist of
the year, was infuriated
A hit on Black and White
charts, Mariah Carey is
biggest new pop star
since Whitney Houston
54
EB NY March 1991
Continued on Page 56
Denying reports that she is a White star imitating Blacks, talented singer-lyricist poses (left) at New York luncheon. "My father, Carey says, "is Black
and Venezuelan, my mother is Irish. That makes me a combination of all those things."
MARIAH CAREY Continued
sing a certain way. I'm just trying to be
Because she and her mother moved
And now, here at a luncheon at Lolas me. And if people enjoy my music, often, she didn't have many close
n Manhattan, she has the then they shouldn't care what I am, so friends or get involved in high school
music programs. Instead, she spent af-
straight and "tactfully" correct the Carey says she has always loved to ter-school hours writing songs and
ing, and she gives credit and thanks to making demo tapes with longtime ac-
perfect opportunity to set the record
it shouldn't be an issue
erring critic.
"Im not a White girl trying to sing her mother for the "genes. Her quaintance Ben Margulies
Black," the 20-year-old singer says in mother started giving her vocal lessons I 1987, right after finishing high
an interview soon after. “My father is when she was four years old, and she school at age 17, she moved from her
Black and Venezuelan, my mother is spent considerable time around her mother's home on Long Island into a
Irish. That makes me a combination of mom's musically talented friends, one-bedroom apartment in Manhattan
all those things. I am a human being, a soaking up the sounds of Billie Holiday with two other struggling performers
During this exceptionally lean period,
As a kid, she also spent a lot of time she slept on a mattress on the floor and
Though barely out of her teens, Ma- listening to the radio and her sister's worked as a waitress, hat checker and
riah Carey is indeed her own woman records. The soulful sounds of Gladys restaurant hostess to make ends meet
She grew up in New York with her Knight, Aretha Franklin, Stevie Before and after work, she diligently
mother, Patricia Carey, a vocal coach Wonder and Al Green were constant shopped her demo tapes from record
and former singer with the New York companions. She sang along and stud- company to record company, but was
person. What I am not is a White girl
trying to sing Black.
and Sarah Vaughan
City Opera. Her parents divorced ed the lyrics and arrangements. By basically ignored
when she was three, and Carey had an the time she was in high school, Carey
ther, Alfred Roy Carey, an aeronautica which appear on her recordin
a brother, 29, and a sister, 30.)
back
on-and-off" relationship with her fa was writing her own songs, several of up to Brenda K. Starr, and she was reg
ularly doing studio session work. "We
engineer in Washington, D.C. (She has Gospel music was also a great influ became good friends, and she helped
ence. On occasion, she accompanied me out a lot," she says of Starr. "She
Some people look at me and they her paternal grandmother, who is was always saying, Here's my friend
see my light skin and my hair," she says Black, to a Baptist church. Even today, Mariah, here's her tape; she sings
Eventually she began
running a slender, neatly manicured
she says, "I get up and go to bed listen-
writes..。。..
hand through her long, semi-curly, ing to gospel music." Her favorites i It was Starr who took Carey to the
honey-colored tresses for emphasis. "I clude the Clark Sisters, Shirley Caesar CBS party where she was discovered
can't help the way I look, because it's and Edwin Hawkins, in addition to Ar
me. I don't try to look a certain way or etha Franklin and Al Green
56
At t
Sony Music Entertainment) president
Continued on Page 58
EBONY March 1991
ways felt kind of different from every
one else in my neighborhoods. I was a
different person-ethnically. And
sometimes that can be a problem. If
you look a certain way everybody goes
White girl, and I'd go, No, that's not
Carey chose to express her inner-
most feelings in her songs rather than
become depressed and bitter. You re
ally have to look inside yourself and
find your own inner strength, and say,
Im proud of what I am and who I am
and I'm just going to be myself
And for Carey, that translates into
being a "respected" singer and song
writer. But her phenomenal success
has not inflated her head or her bank
account, for she has yet to realize any
monies from the album's success. The
days when she and two struggling
roommates stretched out a boxed mac
aroni dinner for a week are still too
Vivid, she says
And, no, I don't let stuff like this go
to my head, because success isn't a
scale for talent," says the singer. I
don't want to be a big star,' but I want
to be respected as an artist. I'm de-
Black singers, Carey lighted and very thankful [that people
Influenced by Gladys
Knight, Aretha
Franklin and other
started writing songs ike her work]
in high school. She
is a big gospel musio
fan.
"This is my love," she says emphat
ically. "I want to sing for the rest of my
MARIAH CAREY Continued
more than two million copies. In At this point, she sings every chance
Tommy Mottola a demo. In return, he ically, Carey wrote "Love Takes Time" she gets. In the studio. During promo
gave her a Great-another demo for a second LP. But when Mottola tional stops. In the shower. Around her
tape" smile, and Carey assumed it was
another dead end. But on leaving the
heard it, he insisted on stop
g the one-bedroom Upper East Side Marn
hattan apartment. To the boyfriend/
affair, Mottola popped the demo into but album, even though some record singer she's known since high school
presses and adding the song to her de-
his limo's tape deck. He liked what he ings were already in record stores
heard so much that he immediately re-
To her two Persian cats
Carey says she was just as startled as
Singing makes me incredibly
turned to the party to find Carey. But anyone that Vision of Love" hit so big happy," she says. "Music makes me im
she had already left
because "it isn't hip-hop music, it isn't measurably h
Having no address or telephone house music, and it isn't rap. But I am
number did not deter Mottola from so glad and thankful," she says. That
tracking her down. Ironically, another song really represents everything in
record company had expressed mild
interest in Carey, and a bit of a biddii
war evolved
my life. It is a song from the heart.
ing
Consider the lyrics: "Prayed
through the nights/Felt so alone/Suf
In December 1988, she signed with fered from alienation/Carried the
CBS Columbia Records. Within a weight on my own/Had to be strong/So
week she wrote Vision of Love" for I believed/And now I know I've suc-
her debut album. In fact, she wrote ceeded/In finding the place I con-
lyrics for all l songs on her self-titled ceived
LP, and she even produced Vanish-
the lissome artist with the clear, passio-
inging "America The Beautiful" at the
Just why would such a seemingly
tender womanchild write these words
Columbia went all-out to promote of despair and sing them with suclh
deep passion?
nate seven-octave voice, flexing a little "Well, just because you are young
clout to get her the coveted task of doesn't mean that you haven't had a
hard life," she says with a knowing lit
1989 NBA finals, where she was ex- tle smile. "It's been difficult for me,
posed to 16 million people. Both "Vi moving around so much, having to
sion of Love" and "Love Takes Time grow up by myself, basically on my
have gone gold, and the album has sold own, my parents divorced. And I al
EBONY March 1991
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