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interviewer: How far are you intending to take this? me: Oh, just two layers deep haha
by fayimora 10y ago
interviewer: How far are you intending to take this?
me: Oh, just two layers deep
haha
- LaurenceW1 10y agoI would have given him the job
- gnaritas 10y agoIf that were a real situation, I wouldn't have, he over-engineered the shit out of it and while cool, I prefer devs who can solve simple problems simply; they get more work done for the price.
- gokhan 10y agoThis is not over-engineering. Defining a couple of functions to solve it would be over-engineering, like offloading Fizz to it's own function, Buzz to another one etc. Anything (deliberately) more is just comedy.
- gnaritas 10y agoTraining a neural network to solve fizzbuzz is over-engineering, fun over-engineering, but over-engineering none the less.
- curiousgal 10y agoDepends on the position no? If you are looking for a developer sure. But if you are looking for an engineer, creative solutions are a plus.
- brianwawok 10y agoI prefer employers that don't treat me like a baby, so to each their own ;)
- Bahamut 10y agoWell, when you give a hilariously bad interview question...
- gnaritas 10y agoIt's not a bad interview question, if you think it is, you perhaps haven't had enough experience with candidates applying to programming jobs who talk a good talk but can't program to save their lives.
- TeMPOraL 10y agoWell, technically, as a programmer and not enterpreneur you shouldn't be expected to have "experience with candidates applying to programming jobs who talk a good talk but can't program to save their lives".
- gnaritas 10y agoNo one said programmers were expected to; however, not having that experience makes judgement of what is or isn't a bad question baseless. FizzBuzz and all such trivial code tests are fantastic interview questions because most applications can't program, that is exactly the point and purpose of FizzBuzz, weeding out liars of which there are many due to high salaries in comparison to other fields.
- jawilson2 10y agoYeah, hopefully this kind of question is handled in a phone screen before bringing them in.
- vonklaus 10y agoSometime it is better to hire for culture, someone who is intelligent but also, and this is critical, can take a joke.