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Re:Moving Away from Python 2 by mark-r on Sunday May 22, 2016 @12:21AM (#11747360)
I think it depends on the interviewer and the purpose of asking the question. For a phone screen I'd expect it to be a variant of FizzBuzz, designed to weed out the people that aren't worth wasting time on. Coming up with a complex solution, when the interviewer was looking for something simple, is probably grounds for a fail - even if the complexity is justified.
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Re:Moving Away from Python 2 by ubernostrum on Sunday May 22, 2016 @01:14AM (#11747435)
Yeah, a lot of places use it as an initial phone-screen "can you code" question.

I did bust out a version on one call which did detection of combining classes, normalized into composed form before checking the reverse, etc., and the interviewer seemed kinda lost as I explained it.

Ended up not working for them, but for different reasons.

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