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Once an Amazon interviewer asked me this (in my second or third year of University) as an interview question. I didn't get it at the time and I deeply resented
by zht 10y ago
Once an Amazon interviewer asked me this (in my second or third year of University) as an interview question.
I didn't get it at the time and I deeply resented the problem. What does this have to do with being a software engineer?
But interesting to see how it's actually done.
- fiftyacorn 10y agoMonte carlo method can be used to provide software project estimates. The examples I've seen using it are about the same as planning poker
- gkop 10y agoPlanning poker has no element of randomness though? I'm confused.
- TallGuyShort 10y agoIt's something I'd expected someone to know in anything related to data science / machine learning / big data. But if it wasn't a position specific to those fields, then yeah that's that a pretty silly riddle of a question. edit: even within those fields, it's definitely more of a very-specific-domain-knowledge type of question and not something that I think is worth the time to ask it in a job interview.
- daveFNbuck 10y agoThis is a common thing to learn during your first week or so in an introductory computer science course. They were probably picking something that a second-year student could use to easily demonstrate basic coding ability. Unfortunately, this didn't happen to be part of your intro course.