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I think this project would be far more useful as a computer-science-version of Project Euler (http://projecteuler.net/ http://projecteuler.net/). People could

I think this project would be far more useful as a computer-science-version of Project Euler (http://projecteuler.net/ http://projecteuler.net/). People could then compete on full, working implementations of common interview questions in a variety of languages, that must execute on e.g. Codepad (http://codepad.org/ http://codepad.org/), rather than posting what seem to be really wishy-washy, hand-wavy answers to puerile questions. Then, perhaps with strong moderation, only questions that demand some compromises should be accepted. e.g. implement a container that can be traversed both forwards and backwards. What are the complexities of your container? How could you improve X, and what would the cost be? etc.

pablosaurus 16y ago
I think that's a good idea but I don't know if it would work. Some of these questions would take a TON of work to actually complete. I think people are answering them in the way they would answer it in an interview. One of the questions is 'Design a Twitter-like social network web application'. This is obviously not a small or quick project. I'm guessing Google asks this in the hopes of getting a hand-wavy answer and analyzing you based on that. I'm not saying your idea shouldn't happen (it would make an interesting site) but I don't know that it would work for all the questions.