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I believe puzzle questions, made famous by microsoft, and then copied by google, are the exemplar here. The standard back-story is that it is not about getting
by StandardBub 15y ago
I believe puzzle questions, made famous by microsoft, and then copied by google, are the exemplar here. The standard back-story is that it is not about getting the right answer, but explaining your thought process. Unfortunately, the act of explaining totally wrecks any deep or involved thought process, because you are constantly engaging the speech parts of your brain, which upsets your working memory. Your interviewer never had to go through this process while talking out loud, so has no idea what the question is like on the receiving end.
- EzGraphs 15y agoI am a bit suspicious in this regard of algorithm questions for which the interviewer already has an answer. The interviewer may have a solution in hand that they never solved themselves, or solved at their leisure in a different context (e.g. not in front of several people using a marker board with dried up markers). That said, an interview in isolation is sometimes an attempt to get a sense of how a person reacts under pressure or constraints. It is doubtful that this really matches with the type of pressure that comes with most jobs.