Zaax Consulting Private Limited

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Application Form

All job applicants must complete this application form. We do not accept applications via email or other means. If your application is interesting to us, you will be invited to take the "Zaax Consulting" Programming Challenge. If you pass the Programming Challenge, the next step is a phone interview, and finally, a face-to-face meeting.

1. General Information

Name:

City:

State/Province:

Email:

Daytime Phone:

and/or
Evening Phone:

2. Skills Summary

Please identify your strengths by
checking up to four of the nine
checkboxes below.

web: LAMP

web: .NET

web: J2EE

web: client-side

Windows apps

Mac OS X apps

Windows drivers

Mac OS X drivers

embedded systems

If one of your top skills isn’t
listed above, enter it here:

3. Resumé, Pay and Source

Attach your resumé in PDF,
MS-Word, or .txt format.

Give the file a meaningful name.
(examples: EmmaRoy_resume.doc,
JimTracy.pdf, NomarGarcia.txt)

Let us know your salary
expectations. Please give us a
realistic number, or a narrow
range, and any additional relevant
information.

How did you hear about us?

4. Questionnaire

Below are some questions that will help us to determine whether you have the knowledge to succeed at "ZAAX Consulting". Attach your answers here, as a .zip or .sit archive. We cannot accept self-extracting or .exe files. Your file should include:

a plain text file containing your answers
any other files you wish to include (for example, graphics or code)

Please give the file a unique name, such as “EricGagne_answers.zip.”

If you have problems with this form, please email us at Email: info@zaax.com.

The Questions

Please note: “software” might refer to an application, web site, web application, driver, etc.

Please answer both of the following questions:

Describe the most difficult project you ever worked on and explain what made it so difficult.
Given a specification for a task, how would you go about estimating how long it will take for you to complete the task?

Choose four of the following eight:

What is a “software defect?” What should and shouldn’t be covered by that term? Detail some approaches that will help prevent their occurrence or reduce their severity.
Do you prefer open-source or proprietary technologies, and why?
Where do you think most software projects go wrong?
What do you think of formal design methodologies?
Describe an experience working in a team. What was your role on the team? How did you communicate with other members of the team?
Describe the moment in your life when you became aware that you wanted to be a software developer.
What technologies would you choose to develop a high performance, highly scalable web application and why?
Describe the most and the least rewarding experiences you’ve ever had while working on software.

Choose one of the following three:

Describe a product (other than software) that you’d like to improve, and describe how you would improve it.
What’s the latest thing you’ve learned, or what did you learn last week, or what are you currently learning?
Describe something in your life that you haven’t yet accomplished but would like to.