I would throw a question like this into the mix if I wasn’t sure about the developer or you hear a log of “click, click, clack, clack” in the background during a phone interview. If you have worked with PowerBuilder for more than a few years then you have experienced some some odd behavior or quirkiness with the development tool or deployment process that is not usually learned from a book or class. Questions about PowerBuilder Eccentricities I’ve also added a few interviewee tips at the bottom, if you can ace them you might be able to avoid the technical screening altogether. This article is going to be a work-in-progress because it I do not publish it now I may not get back to it for another six months… check back later for updates. I’ve posted the typical canned interview questions at the bottom of this article after the “beyond canned” questions so you can use both. There is nothing wrong with the canned list of questions but I don’t think they are the best way to gauge the PowerBuilder developers experience level. You can pretty much bank on being asked about the datawindow buffers, the variable protections levels, or the difference between SetTrans and SetTransObject.
I have been through dozens of PowerBuilder interviews over the last twenty years and there is one that that never changes, the list of PowerBuilder interview questions. PowerBuilder Interview Questions – Beyond Canned