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My perspective is not from someone taking the interview. I understand the goal here, but it's artificial enough it's something which actually degrades the produ
by yokoprime 5y ago
My perspective is not from
someone taking the interview. I understand the goal here, but it's artificial enough it's something which actually degrades the product they are modifying.
It's also quite time consuming for everyone involved in the process. A lot of moving parts, where only identifying how to solve the problem is actually relevant.
- db48x 5y agoI think all the moving parts, as you say, are in getting the build dependencies of memcached set up. As stated in the article, the candidates were given an existing machine to ssh into, where that had all been done already. As for whether the modification “degrades” memcached or not, that is a great thing to bring up with the interviewer _after_ you have taken the opportunity to show off your programming skills.