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Re:How to Pass a Programming Interview by kafkaesq on Wednesday March 09, 2016 @01:26PM (#11254677)
Devise a inode search algorithm for unlimited hard disk sizes with a specific set of hardware and search time constraints?

Curious -- was this problem reasonably related to the kind of work you'd be doing in the role you were applying for?

Or did they just want to find out if, you know.... you had that "spark"?

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Re:How to Pass a Programming Interview by pjmlp on Wednesday March 09, 2016 @01:43PM (#11254831)
It was a position related to compiler development.
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Re:How to Pass a Programming Interview by kafkaesq on Wednesday March 09, 2016 @05:47PM (#11256241)
Weird... what were they thinking?

But thanks. Another data point added to what others have been saying about their hiring process.

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