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Which is why companies started moving into other questions that have no relation to your job, like designing youtube. There is such a slim chance that you'll en
by flavius29663 5y ago
Which is why companies started moving into other questions that have no relation to your job, like designing youtube. There is such a slim chance that you'll end up designing youtube at your tenure there, in a team of 2...that it's probably more likely to fill a jet with balls. Yet somehow people are not bothered by the design youtube question the same way they are about balls in a plane. It's true that the youtube version has technologies that are somewhat related to what you'll be doing, but in practice you won't have the opportunity to choose that many technologies for a single product, you'll be a cog in the machine anyway.
- thinkharderdev 5y agoYeah, I think in general people lump Fermi estimation problems in with "brain teaser" questions (which I think really are silly) because they are both technical(ish) interview questions that have nothing to do (superficially) with software engineering.