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Or it’s a bad interview question as posed because in practice you could look up the spec and a better question would be to probe how the candidate would approac
by yellow_postit 4y ago
Or it’s a bad interview question as posed because in practice you could look up the spec and a better question would be to probe how the candidate would approach the problem and what clarify questions they would ask.
- touisteur 4y agoAnd most likely any serious Ada codebase worked by people worrying about such a question, has this in a generics or done (correctly) 7000 times... 'I'd just instantiate the Quantizer or Quantization_Manager generics, y'all have one, right?'
- gowld 4y agoIt's a bad question because it's completely impossible, so the interviewee has to guess if the interviewer knew that and looking for pushback, or didn't know that and you have to figure out what they actually meant and what they incorrectly think the answer is supposed to be.