| Tip 8 | Be a Specialist |
“How would you write a program, in pure Java, that would make the Java Virtual Machine crash?” Dead silence. “Hello?”
“I’m sorry. I’m not getting you. Could you repeat the question, please?” The voice sounded desperate. I knew from experience that repeating the question wasn’t going to help. So, I repeated the question, slowly and more loudly. “How would you write a program, in pure Java, that would cause the Java Virtual Machine to crash?”
“Uh…I’m sorry. I’ve never done that before.”
“I’m sure you haven’t. How about this question: how would you write a program that would NOT cause the JVM to crash?”
I was looking for really good Java programmers. To start the interview, I asked this person (and all the others I had ...
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