How to Pass a Programming Interview

Re:How to Pass a Programming Interview by draw_down on Tuesday March 08, 2016 @03:52PM (#11248511)

If you're a programmer, you like to solve puzzles, so think of passing the interview as just another puzzle! I mean, yeah, it shouldn't be, but here we are.

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Re:How to Pass a Programming Interview by kafkaesq on Thursday March 10, 2016 @12:33PM (#11260547)

If you're a programmer, you like to solve puzzles,

No -- we like solving problems. Especially those that have a legitimate context (i.e. are explicitly linked to some actual, real, business or social problem). And for which our skills are truly relevant needed (specifically, for which no one has a readily available answer, at the moment).

But made-up "puzzles"? For which the asker already knows the answer, so they sit back and watch us dance?

Not so much.

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