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Interview Street (YC S11) streamlines the search for great programmers
- bdr 15y agoI love the idea, running into a bug though. I'm getting a "Compilation Error" message on my submission, but it compiles fine locally, and clicking "Compile Message" to see the error just brings up a blank window. (Username: andrewbadr, using Chrome 13 on OSX)
- rvivek 15y agoChecking it up right away.
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- alexandros 15y agoWhat's there to stop blogs with problem solutions or how-to's from popping up?
- sorbus 15y agoVery little. However, if companies are making their own problems and the same set aren't used for every job posting, it would be harder to make a general how-to for every problem on the site. It also would probably not be that hard to determine which problems have publicly available solutions, or if the solution an applicant uses is publicly available - for that matter, if I were an employee of this company I might advocate for creating fake solution websites (with flawed solutions), so that applicants who were simply copying code could be easily detected.
- ThePawnBreak 15y agoThen the company can hire the guy who posted a solution on his blog if the problem is hard, or not care anyway if the problem is simple.
- dougws 15y agoI'm not sure that this effectively replaces any part of the traditional process (resume--phone interview(s)--onsite interview(s)). I guess it comes closest to replacing the phone screen, but my understanding is that the goal of the phone screen is to establish "can this person actually write code" which I don't really think this does given how easy it would likely be to cheat--either by finding a solution online or by getting someone else to do it for you.
- keeptrying 15y agoThis helps for campus placements where you can't Realky get others to code for you.
- Maro 15y agoHow is this different from Codility?
- swanson 15y agoI get frustrated because I am pretty horrible (in my mind) at these kind of math puzzles ("Given N numbers , [N<=10^5] we need to count the total pairs of numbers that have a difference of K. [K>0 and K<1e9]..."). My frustration is compounded when I know that I won't really need to write this kind of Project Euler-style programs in 90% of jobs. Your company is a web app, I can write web apps; why am I solving problem sets from undergrad Discrete Math to demonstrate competence? Why not have the tasks be like "Use AJAX to pull down a users last 10 tweets and display them on a web page"? Maybe it's because the only samples are generic and not submitted by the companies, but I was hoping for a bit more relevance to the intended job duties than yet-another-interview-puzzle.
- rvivek 15y agoHi Swanson, totally agree to your comment. We're going live in a week's time where hackers can solve real-world problems. Mind dropping an e-mail to team@interviewstreet.com ? Would get back to you once it's live.
- swanson 15y agoThanks, I didn't actually read the TC post all the way though (I just went to your site directly) so I missed the part where you addressed this in the article. Glad to see you understand my perspective.
- rvivek 15y agoYes, thanks swanson
- dfguo 15y agothat would be really cool. that part of the skill sets is rather needed to actually get something to work. great job.
- killedbydeath 15y agoThat is not necessarily a math puzzle. Sounds more like a programming task formalization using math notation if you take the brute force search approach. Using math concepts helps too phrase interview questions in a non-ambiguous way, like "write a function printing all prime numbers in the range 2 <= n <= 1000".
- thurn 15y agoSupport for solving programming challenges in Bash? Killer feature!
- doctoboggan 15y agoThe guy in the live chat said they look negatively on large numbers of submits. I think this is a poor idea for two reasons. 1) This will simply encourage people to develop offsite and submit when they have working code. On their site they allow recruiters to see what applicants are typing in real time, and pushing people off site will render this function useless. 2) In interpreted languages like python my work flow usually is incremental change and test, so very high numbers of submissions will not be unlikely. I don't think that kind of programming should be discouraged. There should be a Test button as well as a Submit button. The employee understood my concerns, so hopefully they get that worked out soon. Another criticism: The problem desctriptions seemed poorly worded to me. It is a good looking site either way. I'll be keeping my eye on it.
- extension 15y agoThey could also put a live REPL next to the editor and record the interaction with that.
- ForrestN 15y agoThat's really interesting. If there is criteria beyond the solution you produce, they should really list that clearly on the site. If I don't know that and I'm applying, I might be only half-focusing while doing other things and take a long time and maybe not come up with the perfect solution right away. I think this kind of extra testing could be detrimental because it's going to stress people out. Give a hacker a fun challenge and set him to work, he'll probably do it better and faster than if you set him in an empty room with a big timer and people scowling at him.
- Jd 15y agoCodility has a great test feature. You can load test data and see if the output is what you expect it to be.
- robot 15y agoI hope the system recognizes C and C++ as two different languages. That would be one hipster feature.
- suren 15y agoOf course it does !
- ForrestN 15y agoThis looks really cool! A bit of design/copy feedback, none of it terribly urgent of course. Using Chrome 13 on OS X. - Copy problem on the main challenges page: "Solve challenging programming questions and land -on- your dream job." - On the challenges page "Solve This" buttons, the text is too high within the button, isn't centered. - "Are you a great company for hackers?" box on the challenges page has weird stray space at the bottom of the box. Either vertically center the contents of the box or cut off the bottom. - Typing error in the FAQ: "No worries, the remaining invites automatically get-s- added for the next month." Sort of awkward anyway, maybe "automatically roll over to the next month" is better? - On my laptop, the live chat tab covers up the "All Rights Reserved" line, which doesn't matter but is a little visually annoying. - The check marks and X's on the pricing page aren't aligned correctly with the row labels. They're aligned by the bottom of the text to the bottom of the icon, but the icons are bigger so it looks off. You should align the center of the text to the center of the icon. - "Buy Now" buttons on the pricing page aren't centered correctly within the columns - This is a small one, but maybe "Recruit" and "Challenges" don't match very well as the two halves of your site. They aren't the same part of speech and don't perfectly convey the two areas. Maybe something like "Get Hired" vs. "Recruit" would more clearly convey the split? - The "About" page could do with being re-worked in a lot of ways. The spacing is pretty messed up (for example, YC branding has tons of space above, none below), and the paragraph format makes no sense for the information you're conveying. If you want to include companies you've worked for, why not make them a list. Overall, this page doesn't seem to serve any effective purpose beyond being a placeholder for some eventual page. There are also a ton of copy errors: "At Interviewstreet[Isn't the 'S' capitalized in your brand?], we are looking to change the way the recruitment industry works. We are a team of five hardcore hackers and our Hall of Fame reads as[This is really unclear and awkward language. A Hall of Fame is usually comprised of people, not their accomplishments. If you want to keep it, change "reads as" to "includes," but it might be better to say something like "with experience at companies like"] MediaWiki, GNOME, Firefox, Libreoffice and Hadoop hackers, multiple Google Summer of Code participants, ex-Yahoo!, ex-Amazon and ex-IBM . Having worked in top Silicon Valley firms, we understand what hackers look for in their perfect job and[New sentence here?] with InterviewStreet, we hope to match programmers with the best jobs out there[Needs punctuation]" and "We are always online - just hit an e-mail["hit an e-mail" is a strange phrase; maybe it's lingo I don't know or something but I've never heard it. What's the advantage over "send?"] to team@interviewstreet.com (or) call us at 512-800-3815,[New sentence?] we will get back to you! save[Capitalize] the precious time of your employees[Maybe "Save your employees' precious time" is better, but I'm not sure what you even mean by this, or why it's here.] :-) Hiring is fun from now on!" - "Contact Us" page is also a little weird. If I'm in "Challenges" and click on the link in the footer, it takes me to the "Recruit" tab for some reason. The spacing is strange: there's a ton of vertical space in between "Recruit" and "Contact Us," but the fields and field labels and submit button are all jammed together. My eye loses track of which field labels apply to which fields unless I start at the top and move down.
- lisper 15y agoWhat? No Lisp option?
- dxbydt 15y agoI submitted the same Java code 3 times. Compiled ok only on the third time since I poked around a bit and found I have to call my class "Solution" in order to pass compilation! The guy in the live chat said he'll change my # of submissions to 1 instead of 3, since the challenge didn't say that the class be called "Solution". Hasn't done so yet. My score is 52.5 when it should really be 57.5. Hopefully they fix that. Am on to my next challenge.
- suren 15y agoDone now!
- tomjen3 15y agoInteresting, but as a (potential) candidate I wouldn't be very happy if each company had its own coding challenge, since it would make getting a job much more time consuming than it already is.
- pizzamagic 15y agoMight want to tell your co-founder that pictures of hot chicks on his blog might not give the most professional impression: http://sp2hari.com/ http://sp2hari.com/
- yuvipanda 15y agoCode is sexy :) Edit: No offense intended.
- mbesto 15y agoDisagree. Oh, and, by the way, if you think that it's unprofessional to be funny, then I'm sorry, but you just don't have a sense of humor. (Don't deny it. People without senses of humors always deny it. You can't fool me.) And if you work in a company where people will respect you less because your specs are breezy, funny, and enjoyable to read, then go find another company to work for, because life is just too damn short to spend your daylight hours in such a stern and miserable place. http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000033.html http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000033.html
- hugh3 15y agoOh purleez. There's only one, and it's in context.
- ig1 15y agoCompetitor Codility (funded by Seedcamp) who launched a couple of years ago was discussed quite extensively at the time: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1039140 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1039140
- niels 15y agoI had great fun doing the codility tests. Their site is great, allowing you to do the tests in the language of your choice.
- anonymoushn 15y agoNeither of these sites allows you to do the tests in the language of your choice =/
- mtogo 15y agoFrom their demo test: Your test consists of 1 programming problem to be solved in Java, C++, C#, C, Javascript, Pascal, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby or VB.NET,
- anonymoushn 15y agoThat's correct. On both of these sites, I may use C, C++, C#, Java, Python, PHP, Ruby, or Perl. On Interviewstreet I may also use Haskell. On Codility I may also use Javascript, Pascal, or VB.NET. "The language of your choice" would probably include Algol-68, Lua, more than zero Lisps, D, and Brainfuck.
- federicof 15y agoand on Coderloop you can also use Fortran, Erlang, Objective-C, Lua, Javascript, Scala, OCaml, Clojure and Common-Lisp :) http://www.coderloop.com/home/guidelines http://www.coderloop.com/home/guidelines
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- jasonjei 15y agoThere's also an interesting tool that's open source in case you don't want to pay for Interview Street called WebCat used by some universities to run automated test cases. Not all software can be automatically tested (and in the case of WebCat, I think there are only plugins for C++ and Java at the moment). http://web-cat.cs.vt.edu/ http://web-cat.cs.vt.edu/
- plamenv 15y agoThe only thing a site like this can "streamline" is the weeding out of the truly incompetent people, pretending to be programmers. But I'd argue that it's not a very hard task anyway. So, while solving the challenges will be fun for the applicants, it doesn't seem like the service would be of much help to the companies.
- reinhardt 15y agoWeeding out the truly incompetent people may not be hard but it's time consuming nonetheless. A phone screening may take anywhere from 30 to 60 minutes of the interviewer's time, regardless of the interviewee's competence. Multiply this with the number of candidate a company has to wade through for a single opening and it gets significant real soon. They're probably not the new LinkedIn but I think they're into something.
- sriramk 15y agoIn case people didn't know this, this is based all out of India. And we have Yuvi Panda (HN:yuvipanda), one of the younger hackers around here, joining them. Can't wait to see how they do.
- rvivek 15y agoWe just moved to valley :)
- ikarous 15y agoFor the sake of comparison, there is a site with a similar aim that was mentioned here earlier. http://www.codeeval.com/ http://www.codeeval.com/
- baltcode 15y agoAlso, there is http://www.coderloop.com/ http://www.coderloop.com/
- PaulJoslin 15y agoA feature suggestion from me: - Allow the recruiter to decide what he's looking for in the code. e.g. Complexity / Efficiency / Clean maintainable code / OO Principles, etc. The biggest problem I have with job interview style 'coding puzzles' - is that the code that is optimum to solving the solution is actually not code I would want to write day to day and wouldn't be code I would want to work with day to day. The reason is because in my line of work, we are working with good clean, maintainable code, using good OO principles. This includes naming of variables, naming of functions and accounting for extendibility and maintainability from the ground up. However, most of these coding puzzles, will be looking for people to write the 'simplest' / 'most elegant' solution to the problem, often leaning towards efficiency or using the least number of lines / characters. For example, the variables will be 'x', 'y', 'a', 'b', everything will be manipulated through integer 'index' and complex reg exp's may often feature as short cuts to longer code. - Now there's nothing wrong with the solution this produces. However, overall coding style I prefer is maintainable and easily readable. Variable names have meaning, we work with concrete objects and each piece of complexity is broken into separate functions / classes. Neither solution is wrong, but the approach to either is completely different and for a interviewee it's often hard to know which path I should be treading when writing the sample code. On the one hand, the interviewer may think I lack any forethought of maintainability / readability, if I just hack together something quickly using single character variables. On the other hand, the interviewer may think I'm adding too much bloat / taking too long by using full naming and creating my objects to handle what I want to achieve.
- rickmb 15y agoMaybe it's just me, but when I look for great programmers, their ability to solve coding challenges is really the least of my problems. In my experience, the ability to leverage those skills into delivering mature, stable, maintainable and generally high quality software is considerably rarer than the skill to solve puzzles. And don't even get me started on non-technical skills, like being able to organize and plan the work, communicate with non-technical people etcetera. Basically, I don't see this kind of testing covering more than 5% of the screening effort.
- timr 15y agoYou're not the only one. The more experience I get developing software with other people, the more I value stuff that isn't really captured by coding interviews: * do you thoroughly document your code without nagging? * do you value simplicity over cleverness? * do you think communication is a chore? * do you enjoy human interaction? * do you have empathy? * are you creative? * do you have good taste? Googrosoft-style interviews are great for selecting people with raw intelligence, a competitive streak and some level of arrogance. They're not quite as hot at selecting reasonably smart people who are personable, creative and tasteful. And that's a huge portion of the job when you're writing software in a group. Very little day-to-day software work requires raw brilliance, but nearly all of it requires communication, empathy, creativity and taste.
- jebblue 15y agoWell stated man totally well stated.
- rorrr 15y agoAnd how do you test for all of these things that you listed during an interview? I've been in charge of technical interviews for a large corporation for a year and a half, and there have been many truly shitty developers who couldn't solve even simple programming problems, but they knew how to bullshit, and they would totally ace your questions.
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- bugsy 15y agoA computer program automatically torturing applicants with endless puzzle tests is not a way to find talented qualified people with experience delivering working results that delight the user. It's a good way to find people that have a lot of free time to play games because they are unemployed. In the years following my first job out of school (decades ago) I can't recall any work that I have gotten by going to these sites, or dealing with monkey tests. Work comes because of my reputation and experience which speaks for itself. At conferences people give me their card and tell me to call them if I am looking to 'move up', which generally means "pay more than the last guy". Any time one contract or job ends, I look through these cards. Most of the time I get several phone calls from people I have met of the sort: "Hey Bugsy, I heard rumors of ABC Corp having layoffs. You looking to get out? We have a position..." It's bad enough when the interviewer wastes more than 10 minutes of time with puzzles. Having it be automated so it can waste hours and hours without any human feedback is extremely offensive. Whoever designed this system knows nothing about acquiring talent. The note in the article that in the future the site is going to be augmented with "real world tests" that force the user to design entire sites or otherwise labor for free borders on criminal since they are forcing you to do real work and you're not getting paid for it, in violation of state and federal labor laws. If you haven't already seen examples of someone's work before you contact them, maybe you shouldn't be hiring them. Or maybe you need recruiters who know what they are doing. Again, I have no doubt that desperate people who are unemployed because of their incompetence or lack of skill will not have any problem devoting the hours needed to google answers, or to hire third parties to help them complete these tests. I am sure complementary businesses will now open up that sell test answers to desperate applicants for a fee.
- gleb 15y agoNot every developer has a brand. This service appears to target companies hiring developers that don't. Fortunately that is 99.99% of the market.
- yid 15y agoI think OPs complaint is that the service purports to find "great" programmers where they really mean "adequately competent to perform most tasks and able to learn". Another case of marketing speak annoying the nerds.
- micrypt 15y ago“Programmers should not be puzzle-minded… We would be much better served by clean, systematic minds, with a sense of elegance.” - Edsger W. Dijkstra (http://portal.acm.org/ft_gateway.cfm?id=1787249&type=htm http://portal.acm.org/ft_gateway.cfm?id=1787249&type=htm)
- dbieber 15y agoAny ideas about how the scoring mechanism works on the site?
- almightygod 15y agoI have so much open source to demonstrate my ability, I promise you I'll never use this site or complete any code exercise for an interview. If you don't want to look at my github profile, fine, I don't want to work at your company I also happen to hire and if the candidate does not have an open source project I give them a meaningful challenge (add value to the community) and tell them to create a github acct and share a link to the repo. At least by the end of the process they have something to walk away with
- psykotic 15y agoYou are insulted by the idea of programming puzzles in an interview situation. That's fair enough by me. But then you go on to say this: > I also happen to hire and if the candidate does not have an open source project I give them a meaningful challenge (add value to the community) and tell them to create a github acct and share a link to the repo. At least by the end of the process they have something to walk away with Could you be any more silly and condescending? Right back at you: Unless your nickname is a literal and accurate description of your programming abilities, I will take a bet of dollars to donuts that every programmer in my office has more raw coding acumen than you. But guess what? None of them has a GitHub account and that is unlikely to change. Neither do most of the other top-tier programmers I know. One of my coworkers has put out numerous public domain libraries (http://nothings.org http://nothings.org), most of them developed on RAD's dime, but he'd probably be appalled to be considered a member of your "community". I actually have an old, effectively defunct GitHub account that I continue paying $8/month for because I like what those guys are doing. The problem isn't GitHub. GitHub is great. The problem is you, and people like you. Don't be a GitHub Douche.
- almightygod 15y agoFirst off, I don't understand where your rage is coming from. My point is that if you contribute to open source then your coding ability is clearly demonstrated in those projects. I'd rather spend my mental powers on coding something that others could use afterwards then a stupid code challenge that will just be rm -rf after the interviewer reviews it. None of them has a GitHub account and that is unlikely to change I'm surprised your so proud that your team will never have a free account on the largest repository of open source. Regardless if you contribute, why wouldn't you take advantage of FOSS instead of re-creating the wheel. I will take a bet of dollars to donuts that every programmer in my office has more raw coding acumen than you Thats a rather baseless statement. What would you know about my ability to code or not to code. On the other hand, your team's apparent anti-open-source position (based on above comment) seems to indicate they are not as awesome as you describe. The problem is you, and people like you You mean people that are passionate enough about programming to voluntarily write code on evenings and weekend and share it for the broader community of developers for the sole purpose of being proud of something you create and sharing it so others can benefit? I'd be happy if there were more problems like me dont be a github douce Honestly I don't care if you use github, bitbucket, codeplex, or your blog
- mtogo 15y agoLooks cool, maybe i'll go solve a few of these. Please log in with google. Never mind.
- sakopov 15y agoThis is a perfect example of cargo cult thinking. Just because you're a tech start-up doesn't automatically put you on the same level with Google and Microsoft. Both of those companies have products which require a team of developers with understanding of computational complexities of algorithms, data structures and etc (think of Windows, Visual Studio IDE, Google Chrome/OS, Bing/Google search engines). I'm yet to find out how this applies to your featured list of companies such as Disqus, DropBox or Weebly and i am more than 100% sure that it doesn't.
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- cHalgan 15y agoWhat kind of companies require this kind of service to screen the engineers? Maybe when hiring via odesk? Hiring remotely for short coding gigs? I'm genuinely interested since I'm not sure if startups or big corporations will use something like this.
- pnathan 15y agoI looked at the demo site. I know there are domains which call for Project Euler solutions. Really. I do. But I only run into "CS" problems about once a month right now. The rest of it is code cranking, talking with people, and working on deadlines. I'm not saying that this is drek in the stream. It's not. It's just... not even close to a demonstration of what I can do for the company I work for. Yes, I could work out these solutions. But (these days) I'd rather work on writing software rather than developing one-off algorithms. (And of course this sort of thing tempts me to submit in Haskell or Lisp, because hey, more mathematical notation. And you probably don't want to read >>= or ))))), do you? ;-) ) I'd rather share my open-source code (it's on github and bitbucket!), talk about my prior projects, and present my ability to work with other human beings to get the task at hand done. Yet- all that said - Best of luck, Interview Street. Anything that helps people connect with jobs they are suited for is a good thing in my book.
- Eliezer 15y agoAnother potentially good idea trying to solve an open problem with lots of room for improvement... ...ruined by the ever-spreading concept that everything should be solved using web apps. I mean, heaven forbid that they actually have a physical center with employees testing people.
- mattdeboard 15y agoWho the hell would go to that? The internet exists, therefore use it to make "physical testing centers for hackers" totally irrelevant.
- Eliezer 15y agoBy this logic, companies should never interview in person.
- quizbiz 15y agoThe unemployed should be spending every minute trying to learn programming. I'm surprised we haven't seen any sort of public awareness campaign geared towards learning computer science. Only recently is it starting to be "cool" and equivalent to lawyers/doctors.
- zackattack 15y agoHave you ever met an elite programmer who was not an alpha male or alpha female. I would simply test for signs of dominance. Edit: downvoted. Two possibilities spring to mind: 1) Downvoted by a feeble mind not capable of constructing an intelligent retort. 2) Downvoted by a relatively strong, yet ultimately scarce mind that wants to prevent access to the truth.
- dadads 15y agoI thought that this was a cool service, but then I opened the Pricing page and I went "Holy Shit"!
- NY_Entrepreneur 15y agoThe writing for the statements of the three problems has some severe errors at the level of eighth grade English and Algebra I. No one very good at solving those problems should spend their time on problems so poorly written. E.g., for the first, really serious, substantive error, in the first problem, the largest possible size or absolute value of each of the "N numbers" was not specified. Without any such specification, it is not possible to write solid code to solve the problem. The problems look like rotten bait on rusty hooks. I'm not biting. The third problem does have some cute contact with convexity that can be exploited to give a relatively fast algorithm. Will I write out the code? I will not! The problems suggest that writing the code is the main challenge, that if I could write the code then I would, and if I don't write the code then I can't and am shown to be unable and should be embarrassed. This suggestion is nonsense and an incompetent insult, and I'm not falling for that insult. My work in computing and computer science has passed reviews with competence far, far, FAR above that of what the problems show for Interview Street. Net, Interview Street is promising that its really bad house painters are the ones to pick someone to paint the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel which is insulting nonsense. Besides, more important than the code would be the documentation that explained why the code is correct, but the problems are not seeking such explanations. So, the problems are a bad example of how to work in computing and a 'bummer'. Today I'm writing code to get a use of Windows Communications Foundation (WCF) working for the asynchronous 'remote procedure call' communications I need for the server farm for the Web site for my project. Yes, the third problem has some math, but my startup has at its core much more math, much more advanced, powerful, and valuable, and some nicely original. Besides, I have all such math for my startup in code ready for production so that at this point I just need to get code using WCF to connect together the asynchronous parts of my server farm and write a few more, simple Web pages to have code ready to go live. That is, WCF will so help me go live assuming, still open to question, that WCF is the 'right stuff' for my project; else I'll just write a TCP/IP sockets application. So, I have no time for puzzles with convexity with no business connection. Besides, who at Interview Street would actually understand the convexity exploitation? From the writing of the math in the questions, likely no one would! That is, people who write math as badly as in the problem statements have little chance of understanding the convexity math of the third problem. That is, the writing of the math indicates solidly that the writers know far too little math to understand the role of convexity in the third problem. Instead, it looks like Interview Street got the third problem from a textbook on, maybe, facility location and, then, made a mess of copying over the problem. So, the third problem is in facility location: Maybe I should call up one of my old facility location profs, J. Cohon, now President at CMU, or just get out my class notes! Or, with convexity, maybe I should get out my old notes on optimization. Besides, what employer would appreciate the role of convexity? Likely none. So, writing the code is a fool's errand. Life is awash in fools' errands to be avoided. No, to solve the third problem well, the main issue is actually not writing the code but exploiting the convexity; that I have noted this is likely a better 'solution' than most of what will be submitted. Indeed, any good solution will have to address the math of the convexity carefully and otherwise be just a lot of gibberish with no reason to believe in its value. Net, the third problem is not in computer science but in applied math; once again, computing, out'a gas, is looking to applied math for 'content' and is making a mess. My background is in applied math, especially for business problems. Given the math, the computing is routine! The coding ain't the main challenge, guys! Interview Street is illustrating a serious, fundamental problem with current computing: It doesn't know the difference between applied math and software. In particular, a good solution should not be in C, etc. but in TeX and is not 'code' but theorems and proof. Sorry 'bout that!
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- jeremylichtman 15y agoNuts. On challenge #1 my code passed 14/15 of their test cases, and failed on the final one. Only, I don't get sufficient feedback to determine where the bug is. Ok - I only spent 15 minutes on this, and I'm not particularly interested in finding a job with any of the companies that are listed. Still annoying though.
- coolsteve 15y agoIf I may add my 2 cents - the design interface of this site is all over the place ... honestly it's such an eyesore seeing they can't even make the footer stick to the bottom of the page. Then there is the Terms of Service page -- such an embarrassment!