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When I'm in charge of hiring for a highly technical role, I'll ask them about a particularly challenging problem that they solved. The ongoing discussion with t
by karmakaze 5y ago
When I'm in charge of hiring for a highly technical role, I'll ask them about a particularly challenging problem that they solved. The ongoing discussion with them getting me to understand the problem and solution in as much detail as they can describe serves as my 'turing test' that's hard to fake moreso than a hit-or-miss coding problem.
- b20000 5y agosome of the interviews I've been through started like that. Which is great. Then, it quickly went on to a coding test where I was asked to implement the optimal solution to a problem, which a certain woman, who wrote a book on coding interviews, and who will remain unnamed, needed almost 2 hours, to arrive at the optimal solution. I was expected to produce said optimal solution in less than 5 minutes. Needless to say, I moved on.