Thanx for that, you've put my mind at easy a tiny bit.
I should have an interview for coding PHP soon, hopefully.
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This didn't go too well.
I had to deal with 2 tables, 1 table had a resellers name and a resellers unique ID number. The second table had the the resellers unique ID, an ADSL username, a unix timestamp of when it was created and a unix timestamp of when it ceased. If the order hadn't ceased then the number was 0.
The first task was to create a table with the resellers name and also how many orders they had. I did this but in 50 odd lines of code.
The second task I don't remember because it was working with averages so I skipped it.
The third task was to have 3 text fields to enter a day of the month, a month of the year and a year. From this I had to convert it to a unix time stamp and compare it the ceased and went live date to show if that order was live on the specified day. I got as far as converting the entered date to a unix timestamp but I got stuck on comparing it with the date created and the date ceased.
I never got to the fourth task
I had an hour to do this so all in all I didn't quite poor
I had to deal with 2 tables, 1 table had a resellers name and a resellers unique ID number. The second table had the the resellers unique ID, an ADSL username, a unix timestamp of when it was created and a unix timestamp of when it ceased. If the order hadn't ceased then the number was 0.
The first task was to create a table with the resellers name and also how many orders they had. I did this but in 50 odd lines of code.
The second task I don't remember because it was working with averages so I skipped it.
The third task was to have 3 text fields to enter a day of the month, a month of the year and a year. From this I had to convert it to a unix time stamp and compare it the ceased and went live date to show if that order was live on the specified day. I got as far as converting the entered date to a unix timestamp but I got stuck on comparing it with the date created and the date ceased.
I never got to the fourth task
I had an hour to do this so all in all I didn't quite poor
If I had a test like that it would concern me. If they're willing to give you an unachievable task to do in an interview then what on Earth are the deadlines going to be like in the job!?astions wrote:I have taken tests before at companies that there is no way you could possibly finish, turns out they only score you on how many questions you answer correctly.