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What type of characteristics constitute a positive result, for a situation like that?

• davismwfl 11y ago
  Overall, did you successfully walk me through your thought process to come to an answer (right or wrong). Did you engage me, ask me questions, challenge my assumption if you felt I was wrong etc. Did you act as a team member trying to figure out the goal or not, did you bounce ideas off people while thinking through the problem. Were you able to eliminate possibilities because you know of limitations or issues that might come up. And really most importantly, did you come up with many, most or all of the key decision points regardless if you go the "correct" answer. So at least for me, and my team, its never about can you state that a hash table is O(1) for access but O(n) for search vs a b-tree is O(log n) for both etc. It is more about can you think through a problem well enough to give us the best solution and will you work with us to find it. e.g. puzzle questions IMO used to be a lot about self gratification to the interviewer's own ego, now we use them to see thought processes and to be interactive to see how we all work together.