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You actually do. All of those puzzle-style questions of the sort of "how many liters of water in Mediterranean" ask you to develop a solution with a vague requ
by necovek 2mo ago
You actually do. All of those puzzle-style questions of the sort of "how many liters of water in Mediterranean" ask you to develop a solution with a vague requirement by leveraging what you know roughly to demonstrate you can specify requirements yourself (oh, Mediterranean is roughly 5000sqkm [-> I need surface area], on average 50m deep [-> I need average depth], this gives me A x B liters total) — I'd call these the leet-code version of requirement understanding/development.
But really, any interview is really about giving you a requirement, and seeing _how_ you understand it, how you clarify it with your stakeholders (interviewers), and then how you address them.
- bdangubic 2mo agoURL please?
- necovek 2mo agoUhm, I wasn't under the impression this was Wikipedia: look for "FAANG interviews" at Google.com or Kagi.com or.... (I am not sure what part you want to challenge, so getting a better response is really hard — if it's all of it, I can't do better than above)
- bdangubic 2mo agoif those silly “puzzle questions” are important (they are not) they’d be a website where SWEs would be competing/hacking on etc - leetcode style. no one gives a flying fuck about that if you can code - no one
- floweronthehill 2mo agoThese are called Fermi problems.
- bdangubic 2mo agoyup! And no SWE in the history of mankind that can code has lost an employment opportunity because of it.