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I do wonder if this is just a scenario where there's no way to win. The person writing this blog post has exactly the same interview prompt - something went pop
by makomk 7y ago
I do wonder if this is just a scenario where there's no way to win. The person writing this blog post has exactly the same interview prompt - something went pop when the board was powered up - but they expect candidates to spot subtle things like missing decoupling capacitors that almost certainly aren't the cause of the problem.
- cushychicken 7y agoJust about every person I've used this prompt on has found the prompted error, and then gone on to find a few more. However, I don't really care about the number of errors you find nearly so much as I do seeing and hearing you reason your way through a new problem. I don't expect you to find all the issues. (But if you do, then congratulations! I'm gonna try to hire you.) I do expect you to talk to me about your thought process when confronted with a novel issue. That's what good electrical engineers do. They don't know all the answers - they reason their way through unexpected challenges.