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define "tricky problem". Given the nature of something being tricky, it could well be too heavily reliant on the 'trick'.
by no_wizard 1y ago
define "tricky problem". Given the nature of something being tricky, it could well be too heavily reliant on the 'trick'.
- akoboldfrying 1y agoI had in mind the problem given in TFA, but I should have been explicit about that. I think it's probably too hard as an interview question, but also that it actually is a somewhat realistic problem that I'd expect a senior programmer to (eventually) puzzle out correctly. (As opposed to, say, the archetypal bad interview question, "How do you swap two integer values without using a temporary?", where many people happen to already know the trick, and if you don't, you're unlikely to figure it out on your own in the space of an interview.)