Weird job interview
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I lost my job some months ago so i was job-hunting when a teacher at uni recommended me for a job interview. The job consisted on refactoring a CRM product (intended for e-mail marketing) that was written in VB. So i went to the interview and when the interviewer asked me about my previous job, I told him i was doing maitenance for a small 250k GIS app. He smiled and then told me that the product was a 10-million lines of vb code app mantained just by himself. And that some features executed 200-250k lines of code. And that it was mostly a big monolitic exe. At first i tought "well, i don´t know if i qualify for such a task", but then i thought, "even the linux kernel hasn´t that much code! and mantained by just one programmer?, and compiled in vb? (how much computing power would this require), and how many programmers do you need to write such amount of code? This is just a small software shop!" WTF, what happened to this guy, why was he pulling my leg? or did he freak out? Anyone has histories like this to share? Old C programmers never die. They just cast into void
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I lost my job some months ago so i was job-hunting when a teacher at uni recommended me for a job interview. The job consisted on refactoring a CRM product (intended for e-mail marketing) that was written in VB. So i went to the interview and when the interviewer asked me about my previous job, I told him i was doing maitenance for a small 250k GIS app. He smiled and then told me that the product was a 10-million lines of vb code app mantained just by himself. And that some features executed 200-250k lines of code. And that it was mostly a big monolitic exe. At first i tought "well, i don´t know if i qualify for such a task", but then i thought, "even the linux kernel hasn´t that much code! and mantained by just one programmer?, and compiled in vb? (how much computing power would this require), and how many programmers do you need to write such amount of code? This is just a small software shop!" WTF, what happened to this guy, why was he pulling my leg? or did he freak out? Anyone has histories like this to share? Old C programmers never die. They just cast into void
Maybe he included the number of e-mail addresses in his database... :| Steve
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Maybe he included the number of e-mail addresses in his database... :| Steve
May be guy/gal who initially developed the code was getting paid by KLOC.
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May be guy/gal who initially developed the code was getting paid by KLOC.
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I lost my job some months ago so i was job-hunting when a teacher at uni recommended me for a job interview. The job consisted on refactoring a CRM product (intended for e-mail marketing) that was written in VB. So i went to the interview and when the interviewer asked me about my previous job, I told him i was doing maitenance for a small 250k GIS app. He smiled and then told me that the product was a 10-million lines of vb code app mantained just by himself. And that some features executed 200-250k lines of code. And that it was mostly a big monolitic exe. At first i tought "well, i don´t know if i qualify for such a task", but then i thought, "even the linux kernel hasn´t that much code! and mantained by just one programmer?, and compiled in vb? (how much computing power would this require), and how many programmers do you need to write such amount of code? This is just a small software shop!" WTF, what happened to this guy, why was he pulling my leg? or did he freak out? Anyone has histories like this to share? Old C programmers never die. They just cast into void
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mango_lier wrote: KLOC Now that's an acronym I haven't heard since the '90s! :-D /ravi My new year's resolution: 2048 x 1536 Home | Articles | Freeware | Music ravib@ravib.com
Care to enlighten the ignorant?
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Care to enlighten the ignorant?
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](http://www.canucks.com)"You're obviously a superstar." - Christian Graus about me - 12 Feb '03 "Obviously ??? You're definitely a superstar!!!" mYkel - 21 Jun '04 Within you lies the power for good - Use it!
103 lines of code. /ravi My new year's resolution: 2048 x 1536 Home | Articles | Freeware | Music ravib@ravib.com
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What did you actually say to him? A sure cure for seasickness is to sit under a tree. Spike Milligan
What did i say to him about the number of lines of his program??? well, nothing, i didn´t dare to say a word because it was such an odd moment. Another funny thing was he said he was porting the main features to asp!!! I suppose he wasn´t interested in my services so he decided to make fun of me or got insecure because his software was smaller-simpler than the one at my previous job, and decided to make up things a little bit... Old C programmers never die. They just cast into void
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I lost my job some months ago so i was job-hunting when a teacher at uni recommended me for a job interview. The job consisted on refactoring a CRM product (intended for e-mail marketing) that was written in VB. So i went to the interview and when the interviewer asked me about my previous job, I told him i was doing maitenance for a small 250k GIS app. He smiled and then told me that the product was a 10-million lines of vb code app mantained just by himself. And that some features executed 200-250k lines of code. And that it was mostly a big monolitic exe. At first i tought "well, i don´t know if i qualify for such a task", but then i thought, "even the linux kernel hasn´t that much code! and mantained by just one programmer?, and compiled in vb? (how much computing power would this require), and how many programmers do you need to write such amount of code? This is just a small software shop!" WTF, what happened to this guy, why was he pulling my leg? or did he freak out? Anyone has histories like this to share? Old C programmers never die. They just cast into void
It could be that he's telling the truth - have you ever worked with VB? It produces enormous executables by default, even for trivial tasks. That makes me think there must be millions of lines of code lurking behind the scene in libraries somewhere. Maybe he's taking credit for those lines, as well as the actual program. "My kid was Inmate of the Month at Adobe Mountain Juvenile Corrections Center" - Bumper Sticker in Bullhead City
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I lost my job some months ago so i was job-hunting when a teacher at uni recommended me for a job interview. The job consisted on refactoring a CRM product (intended for e-mail marketing) that was written in VB. So i went to the interview and when the interviewer asked me about my previous job, I told him i was doing maitenance for a small 250k GIS app. He smiled and then told me that the product was a 10-million lines of vb code app mantained just by himself. And that some features executed 200-250k lines of code. And that it was mostly a big monolitic exe. At first i tought "well, i don´t know if i qualify for such a task", but then i thought, "even the linux kernel hasn´t that much code! and mantained by just one programmer?, and compiled in vb? (how much computing power would this require), and how many programmers do you need to write such amount of code? This is just a small software shop!" WTF, what happened to this guy, why was he pulling my leg? or did he freak out? Anyone has histories like this to share? Old C programmers never die. They just cast into void
consider this a) he is full of cr&p. Therefore you dont want to work for him b) he is being honest. If this is the case I would question his design skills. 10 million lines in vb, what a pile of cr&p. If he knows it all backwards he will be pain to work for because he will want to retain control. c) an email merketing app. Sounds like a spammer to me. if any of these is true I would run amile before working for this guy
