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Nick Halstead on his blog posts a list of interview questions from Yahoo! that a friend of his supplied, apparently free of NDA. Yahoo! is a strong PHP shop, with a few big names like Rasmus Lerdorf leading PHP development there.
A few questions on PHP functions, and “what does this code do?” type of questions that seem a bit off-the-mark in PHP environment, with naming consistency like array_pop and shuffle (both do operations on array), and frequent swaps in the order of parameters passed in. Some fairly good questions, though:
How do you debug a PHP application? - Interesting to see what the interviewee used outside of echo’s and error_log’s.
Is PHP better than Perl? Discuss. and before that
What’s the difference between the way PHP and Perl distinguish between arrays and hashes? - not sure how that relates to someone who’ve been using PHP all around, but occasionally played around with Perl, or vice versa, but nevertheless some good starting points for discussion.
04-21-2010, 05:32 AM
Yahoo! PHP interview questions and answers
