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Has anyone faced an interview question like: "Ok, we have to invert this binary tree. Now what would you google to solve this?"
by HillaryBriss 7y ago
Has anyone faced an interview question like: "Ok, we have to invert this binary tree. Now what would you google to solve this?"
- scarlac 7y agoI have indeed asked this question to several candidates, yes. They were faced with a debugging challenge and some of them weren't sure what .repeat() (JavaScript) did/what the argument meant. I literally said "What would google for?" and then proceeded to invite them to show me in a browser. It gave us a good impression of how good they are at finding answers to coding problems.
- animal531 7y agoYou might just be my new hero. I find it both sad (but also interesting) how little the current IT interview process actually has to do with what job candidates will do once they get the job, and predicting their performance.
- detaro 7y agoNot quite so directly, but I've had interviews where it was ok to search for things.