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I once had a no name company (getglue) tell me that I need to do a 3-hour programming assignment before I can interview with them In that case, I would think I
by 300bps 13y ago
I once had a no name company (getglue) tell me that I need to do a 3-hour programming assignment before I can interview with them
In that case, I would think I was the subject of a psychological experiment entitled, "How far can we push developers".
Although it would be tempting to accept the offer and then write whatever code they asked for in QuickBasic 4.5 (circa 1988) telling them they need to use something more stable than the crap they're using.
- com2kid 13y agoWrite the answer in Scheme. I've only ever answered one interview question in Scheme, the problem was perfect for it. :) I first had to check if the interviewer knew Scheme, and he did! I fear it has been long enough that I could not repeat such a stunt now days, but last week a resume came by my desk that had LISP listed on it, so I prepared some problems that would be trivial in LISP just in case. Unfortunately it was as I had suspected, a stale language listing that should have been removed from the resume long ago.