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If the job is log file processing, it's an entirely reasonable question. But most jobs are not log file processing. It's ridiculous to generalise this sort of
by andrewstuart 3y ago
If the job is log file processing, it's an entirely reasonable question.
But most jobs are not log file processing.
It's ridiculous to generalise this sort of thing:
"We are cooking soup here at Amazon Soup Kitchen. My favorite interview question is to ask candidates to bake a cake, that's the real test of any cook."
- marssaxman 3y agoThe question is not about log processing; that is just a framing device. The interviewer does not care whether you can process log files, specifically; the interviewer cares whether you understand basic data structures and know how to make reasonable tradeoffs between time and space complexity, generally.
- sfn42 3y agoThe people who criticize these questions do so out of insecurity - they know they aren't at the level required to solve it, which is embarrassing because it's pretty simple stuff, so they try to poke holes in it and justify their ineptitude with comments like the one you're responding to.