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Another piece of contextual information that's important is that interviewers can provide hints during an interview. For example, I was asked this question onc
by chillee 7y ago
Another piece of contextual information that's important is that interviewers can provide hints during an interview.
For example, I was asked this question once: Given N points and 3 squares of side length L, what's the minimum L that allows you to cover all N points with the 3 squares?
I think this question is fairly unreasonable as an interview question, if you weren't given hints. In the context of an interview, however, I think it could be reasonable.
- majke 7y agoA similar situation happened to me, and the problem was not hints. I just wasn't happy with that particular problem because I knew how much time it took me the last day, when preparing, to solve it! I was really not into doing it again, it was so traumatic. The correct curse of action is for the interviewer to anticipate this and prepare a backup question.