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> I was surprised to find that only one of the candidates had heard of FizzBuzz. If you were being handed a high fastball over the plate, would you let the int
by jpdoctor 14y ago
> I was surprised to find that only one of the candidates had heard of FizzBuzz.
If you were being handed a high fastball over the plate, would you let the interviewer know it was a high fastball over the plate?
- jlgreco 14y agoI do, yes. I figure doing so probably looks better than being able to answer the question (or rather, than just being able to answer the question, since you still answer it of course).
- dpritchett 14y agoOne time I got dinged for using a library to calculate standard deviation (as a part of larger solution) rather than doing the math by hand. I guess I assumed they were more interested in codecraft than in arithmetic and I was wrong.
- jlgreco 14y agoAh, that's pretty crappy. I try to avoid that sort of thing by prefacing all library calls / fancy language features with a "I'm going to just use [this thing]. If you want me to go into that, I can". Not so much ask permission as tell them. It's really a pain in the ass to have to be on guard like that though.