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The point is not whether an applicant can or cannot do it, the point is that the question is deliberately rephrasing to obscure a candidates understanding. If y
by marliechiller 3y ago
The point is not whether an applicant can or cannot do it, the point is that the question is deliberately rephrasing to obscure a candidates understanding. If you ask your average candidate to do that in laymans terms or they were given 5 seconds to google this would be a trivial task and you would have a different outcome. All this selects for is the candidate to have a working definition of an ascii decimal string in their head, it represents no ability to problem solve whatsoever.
- pphysch 3y ago> All this selects for is the candidate to have a working definition of an ascii decimal string in their head, it represents no ability to problem solve whatsoever. Problem solving isn't orthogonal to having genuine expertise. Loads of awful, brittle, hard-to-read, but working, code gets written every day by people who are good at finding a solution but haven't RTFM, so to speak.