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Thank you. I'd be pretty annoyed in this interview. Surely my potential employer would be more interested in having me apply my twenty years of real-world exper
by LastTrain 4y ago
Thank you. I'd be pretty annoyed in this interview. Surely my potential employer would be more interested in having me apply my twenty years of real-world experiences to what I learned in CS240.
- benhoyt 4y agoNot sure why you'd be annoyed? What I'm trying to gauge in my interviews is their real-world experience (not their academic CS knowledge). That's part of the reason I find my line of questioning helpful: I don't penalize them for a "wrong" answer, but more how they think about it. Then we can discuss parallelization, map-reduce techniques, profiling and measurement, and so on.
- LastTrain 4y agoAnnoyed because of the framing, that is: the answer isn't "wrong" in the first place.