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I like using the Blum Mental Hash as an interview question. As far as I can tell, it's not mentioned in any interview cram lists, and it's complex enough to see

• Waterluvian 7y ago
  That looks fun. Do you require them to know trivia or do you provide them with the definition and ask for an implementation?
  • cjohnson318 7y ago
    I explain how it works first and then ask for an implementation. I look for sane code organization, correctness, and an awareness of Pythonic idioms if it's a Python heavy role.
• banachtarski 7y ago
  It feels really easy? Or am I misunderstanding the algorithm/question?
  • cjohnson318 7y ago
    It's not rocket science, no. I wanted something that could be done rather quickly, that would generate a fair amount of code, that wouldn't require any recursive tricks or discrete math. From there, I can usually look at their code and make a determination.