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There are some questions your interviewer has no business asking, and this is one.  But while you may feel like answering, "none of your business, "  naturally you can't. Some interviewers ask this question on the chance you admit to something, but if not, at least they'll see how you think on your  feet. 

Some unprepared candidates, flustered by this question,  unburden themselves of guilt from their personal life or career, perhaps expressing regrets regarding a parent, spouse, child, etc. All such answers can be disastrous.

BEST ANSWER:  As with faults and weaknesses,  never confess a regret.  But don't seem as if you're stonewalling either.

Best strategy:  Say you harbor no regrets, then add a principle or habit you practice regularly for healthy human relations.

Example:  Pause for reflection, as if the question never occurred to you.   Then say, "You know, I really can't think of anything."  (Pause again, then add): "I would add that as a general management principle, I've found that the best way to avoid regrets is to avoid causing them in the first place.  I practice one habit that helps me a great deal in this regard.  At the end of each day, I mentally review the day's events and conversations to take a second look at the people and developments I'm involved with and do a doublecheck of what they're likely to be feeling.  Sometimes I'll see things that do need more follow-up, whether a pat on the back, or maybe a five minute chat in someone's office to make sure we're clear on things.whatever."

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itsmytime
Thursday, July 10, 2008 8:04 PM
Is this even an appropriate question to ask?
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Antenna
Wednesday, November 07, 2007 7:03 AM
The answer is "half right" in my opinion. As a manager, if someone tells me the can't think of any regrets, I know they are bs-ing me. The latter half of the response is much better.

"Well, everyone has some things they regret, or wish they could redo to do it better, but here's how I make sure to handle this properly when it does happen..."
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Reflection allows us to analyze an assembly's metadata and it gives us a mechanism to do late binding.
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The metadata of any .net assembly can be inspected at runtime for its type, method, properties, and events and so on. The mechanism to do this is termed as reflection and there are classes in .net which enable you to do so.  One can determine all classes that an assembly contains, members exposed by these classes, parameters the members expect, etc. The classes that enable you to do so reside in the System.Reflection namespace. An object's metadata is accessed through its Type class which is retrieved using the GetType() method.  Type T = MyClass.GetType (); One you have the type you can access it to get all other information of the class.
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(Mission statements are an important reflection of an organization's culture. To be fair, they are generally meaningless, but the fact that the company went to the trouble to formulate one is a positive sign, and asking for it makes you look thoughtful and introspective. Be careful, though. Don't ask for a mission statement if it is posted on the company's Web site. That would make you look lazy.)
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Yes structures can be passed to functions by value. Though it has two disadvatanges :

1) The chages by the calling function are not reflected
2) Its slower than the pass by refrence funcion call.
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