unilever

[meridian]

This sound like the old trick of asking for premium skills but offering a discount rate to demonstrate that there is a ‘skills shortage’ and they need to be able to import staff from overseas.

I am so glad I am out of the game .

A lot of their development is being offshored already.

[OwlHoot]

I was on the bench for a month and have just been offered a perl and C# contract for £300 per day near London, just when I was beginning to think perl was going the way of ancient Etruscan (which it may still be I guess). Spent the last week mugging up on C# and .NET and scraped through the interview questions. Apart from the rate, which isn't bad for perl, this should be a good chance to get into .NET or at least be in the running.

The guy asked quite an interesting "bonus" question about linked lists, which I'm ashamed to say I flunked. If traversing a single-threaded linked list, how can you detect any closed loop? Answer (or "an" answer): Traverse it with single hops and at the same time with double hops, and the two traverses meet eventually at the same element if and only if list enters a closed loop.

(Another method is to reverse every pointer as you go, i.e. from the next element back to the previous element, and in this case the list has a closed loop if and only if you end up back at the first element of the list. But I think the first method is better, as the list elements needn't be changed.)

[HankWangford]

I was on the bench for a month and have just been offered a perl and C# contract for £300 per day near London, just when I was beginning to think perl was going the way of ancient Etruscan (which it may still be I guess). Spent the last week mugging up on C# and .NET and scraped through the interview questions. Apart from the rate, which isn't bad for perl, this should be a good chance to get into .NET or at least be in the running.

The guy asked quite an interesting "bonus" question about linked lists, which I'm ashamed to say I flunked. If traversing a single-threaded linked list, how can you detect any closed loop? Answer (or "an" answer): Traverse it with single hops and at the same time with double hops, and the two traverses meet eventually at the same element if and only if list enters a closed loop.

(Another method is to reverse every pointer as you go, i.e. from the next element back to the previous element, and in this case the list has a closed loop if and only if you end up back at the first element of the list. But I think the first method is better, as the list elements needn't be changed.)

God i hate those tossy questions, pulled directly from Microsoft and shows the interviewer has no knowledge to create his own questions.

[wendigo100]

God i hate those tossy questions, pulled directly from Microsoft and shows the interviewer has no knowledge to create his own questions.

I quite liked that question.

Which probably proves your point!

[DodgyAgent]

Where are these Unilever jobs? are they at birdseye inh weybridge.

alright I know that I am touting for leads but I am an agent.

[Bagpuss]

Probably port sunlight on the wirral

[rootsnall]

Where are these Unilever jobs? are they at birdseye inh weybridge.

alright I know that I am touting for leads but I am an agent.

Wirral way, mentioned in the original post.

[HankWangford]

Where are these Unilever jobs? are they at birdseye inh weybridge.

alright I know that I am touting for leads but I am an agent.

speak to parity or spring in manc

[rootsnall]

speak to parity or spring in manc

He's already an agent, shouldn't prevent him ringing Parity or Spring though !

Dodgy - most of the Unilever work is now via Accenture. Not sure if its all pref supplier stuff.

[interested]

It's a mixture of Accenture and IBM, mainly IBM I think. Accenture are doing the SAP implementation and application development across EU, the general stuff is IBM and is done out of Port Sunlight and other global locations