4 ms·
This is litmus test to weed out people who pretend to be programmers. You assess complexities hidden behind the task in system design round.
by EvilEy3 6y ago
This is litmus test to weed out people who pretend to be programmers. You assess complexities hidden behind the task in system design round.
- Veedrac 6y agoI was more viewing this in context of the article, which goes on to micro-optimize a version with an IMO unreasonable set of assumptions. If it's instead explicitly given that this is a quick litmus test, the choices of the first pass implementation don't really matter, and you'll talk about complexities after, then sure.