How to Land a Six-Figure Software Developer Job

So what is wrong with<p><pre><code> { object* p=NULL; p = new object(); p-&#62;foo() delete p; } </code></pre> Do they just mean the missing semicolon? If so that's a pretty lame interview question.

Has anyone read "Programming Interviews Exposed: Secrets to Landing Your Next Job"? I have only browsed the table of contents and it looks pretty promising in terms of figuring out what areas of software development to review/improve before attempting to interview for a developer position.

Come work for Blue Frog Gaming. (well, close to 6 figs, and def there once we IPO).

I bet this thing gets gamed faster than you could bubble sort all the round man-hole covers in every gas station in your zip code.<p>What a bunch of B.S. Do you really think you can "game" your way into a 6 figure job by answering a few brain teasers? And if so, how long would you last?<p>Competent hirers look for "demonstrated performance". Technical questions are sometimes necessary, but hardly sufficient to find that out.

As a soon-to-be college graduate (as of this June), I am especially curious about this. I majored in Psychology, and did a lot of stuff with abstract math, but have limited formal CS training - yet it seems that's exactly what companies want. I don't get it. I've been coding for fun for over 12 years (e.g., BASIC, C++, perl, PHP), one of my projects even successfully scaled and got acquired, but it's hard to find employment. And besides doing my own start-up, I really would love to code for a living!<p>Should I go get a Master's in CS? Spend time this summer working through SICP, and then an algorithms book (I took Discrete for fun, as an elective), and then something else?<p>Any advice would be much, much appreciated.

I signed up with GlassDoor.com to see what the Java interview questions were like. I only found three (nationwide) and they are not exactly illuminating:<p>"Create a small table driven site to display items from a database table."<p>"What do you think of Jakarta software?"<p>"How many people use the websites you've worked on?"