I tried to interview with facebook a few months ago. They wanted me to do a coding challenge. The said basically, "Here is a big glob of data. Write a function

I tried to interview with facebook a few months ago. They wanted me to do a coding challenge. The said basically, "Here is a big glob of data. Write a function that takes that glob of data, parses it and analyzes it, and then returns it into this other formst. And you have one hour to complete this task". It was on a Friday afternoon, and I really didn't feel like spending the next hour banging my head against the wall working on this problem. It wasn't really a hard problem, it was just really tedious. I figured if the interview question is tedious and boring, then the job must also be tedious and boring. Maybe if they had given me a few days to work through the problem, I would have done it. But cramming all that code together in just one hour would have forced me to produce ugly code that would not have been tested, well re-factored, documented, etc. Thats not how I roll.