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>thinly veiled lateral thinking questions What does this mean? (Genuinely curious.) >etc... more than 60 seconds...etc.. Why do you not like this? I’ve never
by rajacombinator 8y ago
>thinly veiled lateral thinking questions
What does this mean? (Genuinely curious.)
>etc... more than 60 seconds...etc..
Why do you not like this? I’ve never been asked this but I think it’s a great question from both an interviewee and interviewer perspective, allows some great meta dialogue into understanding how each other think.
- debacle 8y agoLateral thinking questions are "gotcha" questions that masquerade as critical thinking questions. You can google reams of them. IMHO a programming test is a prophylactic and nothing more. It's fine if you ask me e.g. why I used an anonymous function in one spot, or why I didn't check for a certain exception, but it shouldn't be the focus of a technical interview.