My company is hiring a .NET developer

[tridim]

Check out this applicant's current job..

Software Consultant
.NET software development for Internet voting project for overseas military. User interface development in C#, interface to SQL Server and Crystal Reports. Prototyped reporting project using XML/XSLT. Systems Analysis of county voting systems.

This could be an interesting interview. Any questions you'd like me to ask?

[LynzM]

1. Ask if they follow politics

Not who, but just *if*... better if you can actually find someone who doesn't, because then there's less partisan possibility. Good luck, I hope you get some great candidates!!

[Caution]

2. Ask him point blank if he thinks the votes could be tampered with.

[ET Awful]

3. You could be more subtle though. . .

ask him what security measures were built into the software he programmed and how resistent they were to tampering.

[LifeDuringWartime]

4. .NET??

isnt that microsoft's horribly unstable and proprietary identification service?

what will he be doing for you?

[sangh0]

5. No, .NET is MS's latest development platform

Maybe you're thinking of PASSPORT?

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

6. He probably is -- I would be too, up to 3 months ago

M$ made a truly horrible job of explaining to the masses what .NET is. I only got it when I went to a (free admission) workshop 2 or 3 months ago. Basically, Chef_Ramen_Noodle, it's a VM somewhat like Java with a more comprehensive API and two languages (more may come up) that can compile to it -- C# and VB.NET (which is SOMEWHAT similar to normal VB). Plus the development environment (Visual Studio.NET). Plus a new technology for dynamic Web pages (ASP.NET).

The idea is: NOBODY compiles to the processor anymore, only for the VM. If you ask me, I don't like this philosophy.

And don't get me started about the endless cycle of "scrap the previous development expertise, here's the new thing" M$ keeps on doing again and again.