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This can be formatted as an interview question. Imagine a world in which: 1. A players only hire A players; 2. B players hire C players; and C players hire D
by ronilan 8y ago
This can be formatted as an interview question.
Imagine a world in which:
1. A players only hire A players;
2. B players hire C players; and C players hire D players etc. all the way down to Z players.
Assume that:
1. The trickle-down effect from B to Z causes bozo explosions in companies.
2. Bozo explosions are bad.
3. No one knows what letter player they are.
Q: Find a hiring method.
- ronilan 8y agoA: self.lookALike() is a global method.
- ronilan 8y agoRationalization: If you are not an A player you will hire down the chain and the Bozo explosion is unavoidable. If you are an A player you must hire people like yourself. Since you don’t know what type of player you are, the only safe strategy is self replication. Actuality: Bro, we are all A players here.
- arcturus17 8y agoI’m literally bursting with laughter. I can tell you’ve done many of these.
- throwawaymath 8y agoLet S be your set of employees and let f be your hiring function, such that f(A) = A, f(B) = C, etc. Hiring someone assessed by an employee with letter grade x is the union operation S U {f(x)}. There exists no map f(x) = B. The space is incomplete. Therefore, identify at least one A player and have them found a company. Then after n hires by any employee of S, S consists of n + 1 A grade employees and no other employees, because f(A) is idempotent.
- trevyn 8y agoWait, this is easy — have candidates interview each other, and extend offers to every pair that would hire each other.
- ronilan 8y agoSmart (and good rationalization for the acquihires).