Eoin Campbell

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bio	website	trycatch.me
	location	Dublin, Ireland
	age	30
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	seen	Mar 22 at 14:01
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By day I'm working as .NET Software Architect for a Software Company in Dublin, Ireland.

But I also dabble in Photography, Krav Maga & Fitness Training

@eoinc

I keep an irregularly updated blog @ http://trycatch.me/

	280 reputation	bio	website	trycatch.me	visits	member for	1 year, 10 months
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Apr 28	awarded	Nice Question
Jul 27	awarded	Yearling
Jul 14	awarded	Popular Question
Apr 17	asked	Development Patterns for dealing with Data Import / Export
Nov 29	awarded	Popular Question
Nov 11	comment	Is “White-Board-Coding” inappropriate during interviews? @Caleb - that it might be unfair to a developer to expect them to be able to code without an IDE and it puts them under even more pressure.
Nov 11	awarded	Nice Question
Nov 11	comment	Is “White-Board-Coding” inappropriate during interviews? @TheJug completely agree and we'll be alot gentler with Juniors & Grads to make sure they're not overwhelmed by the process but we've had senior (7-8 yrs exp) devs struggling with this.
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Nov 11	revised	Is “White-Board-Coding” inappropriate during interviews? added 229 characters in body
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Nov 11	comment	Is “White-Board-Coding” inappropriate during interviews? I meant last in the sense that it was the last item on my list. I mix up the order of things in the interview depending on how the conversation part has progressed and where I think their strengths and weaknesses are. As for offering them a short term contract... that's just not realistic in a real world small company. I don't have the time/resources to be taking 3 month punt-risks on people who might not work out and as Ptolemy pointed out, I doubt the candidates would be too keen either.
Nov 11	comment	Is “White-Board-Coding” inappropriate during interviews? well it's more than communication. they need to be able to comm, sure, but they also need to be able to tell me their solution to the simple problem.
Nov 11	comment	Is “White-Board-Coding” inappropriate during interviews? thanks for the feedback ptolemy. much appreciated. you're answer describe exactly what i'm looking for as well as how I'd approach helping the candidate through the problems. But as you also pointed out, I'm flabbergasted by the number of people applying for 5+ year roles who can't do this.
Nov 11	comment	Is “White-Board-Coding” inappropriate during interviews? see i'd agree it's pretty rare... I've held 4 jobs in the last 9 years and never been asked to write code on paper/wb. Any coding has been at a IDE. which is why I'm wondering is it inappropriate. I'd expect a dev to be able to bang out "Reverse a string" code in a couple of minutes at most without IDE/Intellisense assistance.
Nov 11	asked	Is “White-Board-Coding” inappropriate during interviews?
Jul 29	awarded	Scholar
Jul 29	accepted	Is writing your own Data Access / Data Mapping Layer a “good” idea?
Jul 28	awarded	Critic
Jul 27	comment	Is writing your own Data Access / Data Mapping Layer a “good” idea? Thanks for that Jerry. (this answer needs more upvotes :-) )