Help Regarding Development Jobs Applications (and Rejections)

Jamie Taylor · 2015-04-17T22:22:09

Hello all, I'm approaching the end of my time at university and have been applying for a number of game development positions (programming, preferably engine/core-tech). However, I'm sad to say I have not been having much luck as of late; complete honesty: the two rejections I have so far both pretty much claim my C++ is "not yet where we need it to be". Beyond that they give no feedback so I'm unsure as to how I can improve; I appreciate some may say write more code (practice etc) but surely without some feedback to point out your weaknesses simply writing more code/practice isn't as effective as it could otherwise be? One test for example was to write a function which given a string-based representation of an integer could produce an integer with the same value, to which I gave this solution (I'd like to reduce it to one loop if possible, however the test was timed and I had to rush a bit, I'm sure there are other optimizations that could be made). I'm just giving this as a piece of example code, I could provide more if anyone wants as I very much want to learn and improve. int ConvertStringToInt(char *c) { bool isNegative = false; if(*c == 45) { isNegative = true; ++c; } int size = 0; while( *c >= 48 && *c <= 57 ) { ++size; ++c; } c -= size; int returnValue = 0; for( int i=0; i<size; ++i ) { returnValue += (*c - 48) * std::pow(10, size-(i+1)); ++c; } return isNegative? -returnValue : returnValue; } I'm not going to lie, the whole thing has me feeling very down; I'm not looking for sympathy though, I'm eager for some advice on how I can improve and hopefully do better in future applications. Thank you everyone, - Jamie

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Started by CacheMiss April 17, 2015 03:51 PM

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April 17, 2015 10:14 PM

Josh, sorry, wasn't trying to put words in your mouth there. I will say though that I think (while it wasn't in the brief) that it may be worth taking into consideration, hence I added it more for flexibility than anything. Also, I will indeed get involved in the projects going on here once my current project is finished up (shouldn't take long), I'll also put large portions of the code up here for review.