[DUG] Average Salary

[Jeremy North]

I do a verbal (during the interview) and written test. The verbal are
things like explain the differences between the visibility specifiers, what
is notification used for, where is it implemented (what type). If they get
the notification stuff (there are some other questions about it) I ask if
they know what design pattern is used for the implementation of the
notification system.

The written test has some short answer questions basically prodding the
knowledge of the RTL and VCL/FireMonkey (we are using FireMonkey on a
project atm). Then we have a larger design question where we give a
specification and ask them to detail classes to be written to implement the
spec. It gives us a big idea of their OO and design skills. We also ask
thread specific questions.

The written test is about an hour. (we leave for 10 mins reading and pop
back for any questions). Test is written, no PC (although next time we
might supply a PC).
The verbal I have about 10 questions, depending on how they answer this can
be cut down or added to. If they can't explain the difference in
visibility, the verbal question time is very short <g>. They are short
answer usually (depending on the candidate trying to "wing it") so doesn't
take long.

All up, the interview would be about 1.5 hrs.

I'd never ask a brain teaser or puzzle question either, in my eyes, that
just makes you look like a tosser - leave them for the Monday morning
meeting.




On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 10:06 AM, David O'Brien <Dave at iccs.co.nz> wrote:

>  Just as a matter of interest, can you give an example of one of these
> tests?****
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> *From:* delphi-bounces at listserver.123.net.nz [mailto:
> delphi-bounces at listserver.123.net.nz] *On Behalf Of *David Brennan
> *Sent:* Wednesday, 31 July 2013 11:58 a.m.
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> *To:* 'NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List'
> *Subject:* Re: [DUG] Average Salary****
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> Aye. We have what we consider to be a reasonably easy first test and we
> only interview people with at least an A- average from University and yet
> more than half still fail the test. Admittedly we are looking for 100%
> correct but the test is simple enough that this shouldn’t be too high a
> bar, the answer is less than a dozen logic and arithmetic expressions.****
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> After the first test we have a harder second test which has a few
> subtleties which we don’t expect anyone to get in a test situation, this
> provides a better gauge than the first test which is basically a boolean
> gate, pass or fail.****
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> Back to Steve’s question, you have to qualify what you mean as it depends
> on experience. A graduate developer worth hiring probably gets 45-55k in
> their first year I would say, and then goes up from there based on how they
> perform.****
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> David.****
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> *From:* delphi-bounces at listserver.123.net.nz [
> mailto:delphi-bounces at listserver.123.net.nz<delphi-bounces at listserver.123.net.nz>]
> *On Behalf Of *Jeremy North
> *Sent:* Wednesday, 31 July 2013 11:23 a.m.
> *To:* NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List
> *Subject:* Re: [DUG] Average Salary****
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> If you are looking to hire, I suggest you be prepared to pay for a good
> one. Make sure you have a good test though, my experience is that there are
> a lot of "guru", "expert", "senior" Delphi developers out there that are
> absolutely useless. Drag and drop code zombies.****
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> The last time we hired (about 15 months ago) we sifted through about 50
> (sometimes questionable) resumes and interviewed 8. Three of those walked
> out of the test at various stages (one read it and left - said we wouldn't
> like the answer he would give WTF!) and the test wasn't super hard - I
> wrote it :-) (we were looking to fill a senior level position). It isn't
> always about completing the test, but having a candidate acknowledge they
> don't know something is 400% better than them trying to talk around it and
> guess.****
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> At the end of the day, I don't consider any of the people I work with
> "average" developers. I wouldn't like to work with average people.****
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> On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 6:40 AM, Steve Peacocke <steve at peacocke.net>
> wrote:****
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> Hi Everyone,****
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> I was just wondering, what is the average salary for a permanent Delphi
> developer out there in the marketplace these days?
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> Steve Peacocke
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