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> I kinda want to open this up to the HN comments section, because this does not strike me as a brutally difficult problem, but the rate at which people fell on
by pcwalton 8y ago
> I kinda want to open this up to the HN comments section, because this does not strike me as a brutally difficult problem, but the rate at which people fell on their faces when presented with this question suggests either something about our interview process or about the candidates we interview.
Because whiteboard coding is stressful and hard. I still kick myself for almost failing to get a basic sorting question right back in 2009, because the interviewer disguised it as a question about horse racing and it was interview 8 at the end of the day. (I still ended up getting an offer, but I turned it down.)