3 ms·
My problem isn't that the spec is unclear, it's that the spec is silly. The task makes no sense, and selects for misusing tools. This makes it a bad interview q
by Veedrac 6y ago
My problem isn't that the spec is unclear, it's that the spec is silly. The task makes no sense, and selects for misusing tools. This makes it a bad interview question as given.
- hamburglar 6y agoI’d argue that the problem does make perfect sense and isn’t a “misuse of tools” if you manage to understand the goal of the interviewer, which is “watch this person write code for a solution to a well-specified but arbitrary (perhaps even silly) problem.”