Re: Interview befuddlement
lbonafide@yahoo.com wrote:
I've had four technical interviews with the same company (and one
Brainbench exam), and every one of the interviewers asked me what the
vtable looked like. Is this common? One of them also asked me about
how the code and data segments were laid out in memory for N number of
instantiated objects.
Those do have something to do with C++. They touch on implementation
detail. They must have been important to the team and that's why they
decided to ask them. Did you ask why they were asking?
There were plenty of other questions about inheritance, polymorphism,
composition, RAII, as well as Unix specific questions about IPC,
threads, etc, as this is for a C++/Unix architect/developer
position. I just found the repetitive vtable questions puzzling.
You ought to ask them why they thought those were important. Could it
be that they develop their own compiler/linker?
V
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