Re:How to Pass a Programming Interview
by kafkaesq on Thursday March 10, 2016 @12:33PM
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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?
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.