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Continuing your strained analogy, so because you didn't want to make only right turns, everyone else should spend an extra 10min in traffic each morning? The r
by jsjohnst 9y ago
Continuing your strained analogy, so because you didn't want to make only right turns, everyone else should spend an extra 10min in traffic each morning?
The reason to "constrain your solution" is to not rule out very capable candidates who have "stage fright" and not offend other very capable candidates who take offense to your crappy brain teaser problems that don't actually reflect anything they'd do in their real job.
- paulddraper 9y ago> don't actually reflect anything they'd do in their real job I should hope the coding exercise would reflect what they would be doing! Finding logic bugs, munging data, using appropriate data structures, recognizing recursion, etc. If coding isn't a significant portion of the job (researcher, manager, etc.) then yeah, don't put it in the interview.
- jsjohnst 9y ago> I should hope the coding exercise would reflect what they would be doing! Sadly, I have not found this to be the case almost anywhere I have worked or interviewed (seems to be especially relevant the bigger the company is).