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This seems a great way for system design interviews. Interviewer: what do you know about transactions? Candidate: Transactions can be serializable. Interview
by hintymad 3y ago
This seems a great way for system design interviews.
Interviewer: what do you know about transactions?
Candidate: Transactions can be serializable.
Interviewer: great, tell me the difference between final state serializability and view state serializability and prove that they are the same if neither of them has dead step.
Candidate: yada yada yada.
Interviewer: Can you tell me how to use such concepts in implementing a production database system? Please come with a few short illustrative examples too.
- siva7 3y agoIf you want to end up with no candidates, go on.
- tourist2d 3y agoSounds like a great way to hire academics rather than people with industry experience.
- hintymad 3y agoYeah, my comment was a half-hearted joke. That said, the idea should work though: ask the candidate of fundamentals in their line of work, and see if the candidate can have coherent understanding of the landscape and can dive into critical details if needed.
- nvarsj 3y agoReading TFA I actually was reminded of doing system design interviews. It has a pretty similar vibe. Although the interviewers here seemed a lot more lenient than ones I've experienced in tech (Tao saying he "barely passed" kinda confirms it). Not something fun to go through, that's for sure!
- parentheses 3y agoTFA?
- wheelinsupial 3y agoThe fine article… or pick your preferred f word.