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From: David T Johnston <johnstdt@dcs.gla.ac.uk>
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Subject: Re: Getting a job
Date: Mon, 29 Nov 1999 13:30:20 +0000
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Steven Lewis wrote:

> Congratulations on getting a job with Codemasters.  I hope it works out for
> you.
>
> By the way, what were the written tests like?

Not too bad.  There were 4 different one's:

Logical - Standard IQ type test (next shape in the sequence, what's the missing
number sort of stuff)

Games Knowledge - Had questions like "name two 16 bit consoles", "the star of
Tomb Raider".  The hardest question was actually "name 3 games released in
1997?".  It sounds easy but it isn't something you normally pay that much
attention too.

C programming - General stuff about C programming, fixing errors in a program,
stuff about fixed and floating point numbers.

Diagrammatical - Flowcharts where some of the bits were missing and you had a
choice of what should go in.

The logical one was probably the hardest but some of the C programming was
quite tricky as well.

    David Johnston