Posted by BlenderStyle on 03/22/07 16:22

On Mar 22, 7:54 am, Ivan Marsh <anno...@you.now> wrote:
> On Thu, 22 Mar 2007 08:11:16 -0700, Aggelos wrote:
> > On Mar 22, 2:57 pm, "sathyashrayan" <sathyashra...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> Went to an interview and got f**ked ... (OT):
>
> >> They wanted me to do this in 2 hr. Create a address book, insert the
> >> data in mysql. And create a admin panel where the user has the
> >> privileges to add,edit,delete the record. A view panel where the data
> >> are fetched and displayed with html tables. And the user will also have
> >> the functionality to save the data with .pdf or .csv.
>
> > In two hours ??? Hahahah I would be f**ked... if that makes you feel
> > better...
>
> I think it's more likely that they are f**ked... anyone that could do that
> isn't going to be interested in working for a company that would expect
> them to do that.
>
> Sounds like they were trying to get some free consulting and disguised it
> as an interview.

Yeah, sounds like they wanted you to do some free work for them. You
could pull it off with CakePHP or some other rapid application
development framework, though, if you already knew how to do the csv
and pdf parts ahead of time. Creating software in a short amount of
time is just asking for bugs and problems.

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