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How to really fail a coding interview
Our current interview question is from this post. We use that between the phone interview and the actual interview to get a feel about a candidate abilities. You can learn a surprising amount of information from even small amount of code.
Note that one of the primary goals of such a question isn’t to tell you “You should really hire this candidate” but to tell you that “You really shouldn’t”. To clarify, this is a “do it on your own, and you got the whole internet at your disposal” kind of question. Typically we give a week or so to answer this.
Sometimes we get a very clear signal from the code, like in the case of this code:
But I think the crowning glory was this code:
I picked two of the worst offenders, but there were more. Some things I can sort of let slide, and some things I’ll just say no to.
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