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Yep, I love this kind of thing and it's waaay more similar to my actual job than the little self-contained problem on a "whiteboard" style. The similar but dif
by sanderjd 5y ago
Yep, I love this kind of thing and it's waaay more similar to my actual job than the little self-contained problem on a "whiteboard" style.
The similar but different style question that I got (at Stripe, fwiw) in my recent job search that I also really loved was: Here's a failing test against a complex codebase; figure out what's wrong and then fix it. This flexes similar muscles I think: figure out enough of the flow of a complex codebase to understand where the problem manifests, and how to modify things to fix it without breaking other stuff. The really nice thing is: if all the tests pass at the end, you've done it. Then, time allowing, you can go work on improving the fix; making it more consistent with the architecture, etc.