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It's better to actually give a dead simple question instead of leaving them guessing. When interviewing interns, we would start off with "print all the items in
by throwaway27727 4y ago
It's better to actually give a dead simple question instead of leaving them guessing. When interviewing interns, we would start off with "print all the items in an array" - besides for instantly weeding out candidates who couldn't code at all, (and there were a surprising amount), it's also a great confidence booster for them before moving on to the real question.
- jeffrallen 4y agoI had an interviewer ask me "how do you copy a file in Unix". Which was a good intro to the rest of the interview... Which was, "let's brainstorm together other ways to copy files around until we run off the end of what you know". Was a fun one. It was too long ago to remember details, but I suppose the interview got as far as "the data link supports 16kbps, the far side doesn't have compression software, but you have to move 10e6 zeros in less than 30 seconds, how?"