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Looks wonderful, and far better than just copying the code from a hackpad into ideone. Unfortunately, the real thief of time here is the phone screen itself - a
by xianshou 13y ago
Looks wonderful, and far better than just copying the code from a hackpad into ideone. Unfortunately, the real thief of time here is the phone screen itself - although what would have gone on an online collaborative editor now goes in a REPL, the interviewer still has to shepherd the 8 of 10 candidates who can't write Fibonacci. And out of generosity or fear of giving offense, they'll likely sit through it all.
(Which is the beginning of a fascinating discussion about choosing between the Scylla of wasted eng time and the Charybdis of a rigid, non-adaptive auto-screening, but that's for another comment.)
As far as the env itself goes, though, props++.
- akanet 13y agoI do appreciate Greek myth. Allow me to respond in kind. Athena is said to have emerged fully formed and fully armored from her interviewer's head, but what her peer reviewers did not see at the time was the struggle she faced in Zeus' ego. Though newly born, she yearned to wrest the tools of code to her will, yet no matter how she strained at the yoke of her keyboard, she could never quite overcome the compiler. One day, she happened upon a memento that belonged to Metis. It was CoderPad, and it allowed her to more fully bring her will into reality. Using it, she forged herself a suit of armor - not her best work, but much better than the patchwork stuff she was making before. She banged and clamored with her shield, and eventually, the hiring manager Hephaestus was finally brought around to overrule's the stubborn Zeus' "no hire."