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If you're writing code to test primeness or generate Fibonacci numbers, I sure as hell don't want to hire you. Maybe you should have called it the "Greplin Cha
by dkarl 16y ago
If you're writing code to test primeness or generate Fibonacci numbers, I sure as hell don't want to hire you.
Maybe you should have called it the "Greplin Challenge," then, instead of the "Greplin Programming Challenge." It's not a real task, after all; the reward comes from accepting a completely artificial challenge. I'm going to do the challenge before dinner tonight, and before I leave work I could get source code for the solutions from the guy down the hall from me who did the challenge as soon as it was posted -- and you certainly don't want to hire a guy who recodes other people's work for no reason, right?
- rwalker 16y agoMaybe we have a different hiring mindset than dschoon - we're equally happy with people who find the answers or create the answers. In a production system, we certainly wouldn't want hand-rolled primeness checking. But in a programming challenge, we think it's fun to write it for yourself.
- dkarl 16y agoOops; I wrote my comment under the assumption that dschoon was with greplin, and in retrospect I'm not sure why. Sorry about that.