Conducting the Java Job Interview: IT Manager Guide for Java with Interview Questions (IT Job Interview series) [Paperback]

Jeffrey M. Hunter (Author), Don Burleson (Editor)

Book Description

Publication Date: April 1, 2004 | Series: IT Job Interview series (Book 4)

Offering accumulated observations of interviews with hundreds of job candidates, these books provide useful insights into which characteristics make a good IT professional. These handy guides each have a complete set of job interview questions and provide a practical method for accurately assessing the technical abilities of job candidates. The personality characteristics of successful IT professionals are listed and tips for identifying candidates with the right demeanor are included. Methods for evaluating academic and work histories are described as well.

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About the Author

Jeffrey M. Hunter is an Oracle Certified Professional, a Java Development Certified Professional, and is currently employed as a senior database administrator. His work includes advanced performance tuning, Java programming, capacity planning, database security, and physical/logical database design in a UNIX, Linux, and Windows NT environment. He lives in Butler, Pennsylvania. Donald K. Burleson is the author of 16 Oracle database books and is the editor in chief of Oracle Internals. He is an Oracle consultant with extensive experience designing and implementing Oracle8 databases, including systems architecture, project management, data warehouse design, implementation and tuning, tuning massively parallel Oracle databases, Oracle SQL tuning, using Oracle with SAP, and tuning very large Oracle databases. He lives in Kittrell, North Carolina.

Product Details

• Paperback: 150 pages
• Publisher: Rampant Techpress (April 1, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0974435589
• ISBN-13: 978-0974435589
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 7.1 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,211,214 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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19 of 22 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Worst book I have ever seen, January 26, 2005

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Andy Dufresne "Andy" (San Francisco, CA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Conducting the Java Job Interview: IT Manager Guide for Java with Interview Questions (IT Job Interview series) (Paperback)

Either the author has no knowledge of java or has paid very little attention to quality on this book. Most of the questions are flawed. Looks like someone did a web search and compiled some questions together in this book.

Q46 says:
Will the following code snippet compile? Why or why not?

class A {
static void foo(int x){}
}
class B {
void foo(int x){}
}

The author claims that this code will not compile. Try it out it compiles fine. It is obvious that the author wanted to say "class B extends A" when he wrote this question, in which case, the answer makes sense.

This is just a small example of a series of flaws that book comes with. People who claim this book to be good are surely java-ignorant folks.

Each question is followed by a big empty lined writing space. The author/publisher's idea is to raise the book volume without providing enough material. The 289 page could fit in 50 pages on a regular print.

The book is not just misleading but also unfair to the smart candidate who gives the right answer, but is assumed to be incorrect by the recruiters who use this book.

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Good questions marred by quality control problems, September 9, 2004

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Reader from Florida - See all my reviews

This review is from: Conducting the Java Job Interview: IT Manager Guide for Java with Interview Questions (IT Job Interview series) (Paperback)

Attention Rampart Books: Please hire an editor!!

The questions were very helpful - not as finicky as the SCJP questions, but useful at determining a person's level of Java understanding. However, the answers contained a number of inaccuracies and errors. Example: p. 142, wrong signature for toString() is given; p. 143, "In this example, 22=4..." should be "Since 2 (superscript) 2 = 4...".

I would have given it four or even five stars had these problems not existed.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Terrible book, October 30, 2007

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D. Wengert (Dallas, TX) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Conducting the Java Job Interview: IT Manager Guide for Java with Interview Questions (IT Job Interview series) (Paperback)

There is something fishy about this book. Some of the answers given for proposed interview questions are just plain wrong. The description of the author says he has some kind of Java developer certification but it doesn't use the right terminology for the Sun Certified Java Developer(SCJD). If he had the SCJD then he would also have the Sun Certified Java Programmer certification but they don't mention that one. Hey author, what's your SCJD certification number so we can look it up?

At one point the author cautions against hiring anyone 60 years or older because if the company provides full retirement benefits at 70, the company would only get 10 years work before paying for a full pension. Is that blatantly discriminatory or what? No wonder it's tough to get a decent job if you're over 50!