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This was always my go to interview question when I wanted to smugly prove to someone I’m smarter than them because I knew in fact they were smarter than me and
by fnordpiglet 4y ago
This was always my go to interview question when I wanted to smugly prove to someone I’m smarter than them because I knew in fact they were smarter than me and I was feeling insecure. Good to see others use overflow gotchas too.
- junon 4y agoI hate when interviewers rely on niche recall-only interview questions...
- latency-guy2 4y agoEh, I don't think integer overflow is a recall-only type question This type of issue is pretty common to encounter and I make at least a few fixes a year specifically addressing integer overflow across many companies
- 0x445442 4y agoMy favorite was; write a function that determines the number of games necessary to be played in a single elimination tournament with N participants. It’s interesting to watch how many go off into recursion land when they get into the mind set of solving these Leet Code puzzles.
- quag 4y agoN-1 games?
- fnordpiglet 4y agoMy favorite is when interviewers expect you to know sportsball stuff like tournament elimination rules when interviewing programmers who clearly don’t care about sportsball
- 0x445442 4y agoCould be chess.
- fnordpiglet 4y agoReal nerds don’t compete, they program