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High level dynamic language with a good standard library (Python, Ruby). I've seen applicants waste half their interview time writing helper functions in C or w
by peruvian 8y ago
High level dynamic language with a good standard library (Python, Ruby). I've seen applicants waste half their interview time writing helper functions in C or write a bunch of classes in Java before getting started with the actual problem.
That said, it helps to use a language in the company's stack.
- sethammons 8y agoWe used to have a question that happened to require parsing JSON. The majority of candidates using Java struggled hard and wasted so much time on this part. We ended up changing the question to have newline delimited input instead of JSON for those who wanted to use Java.