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Re:People suck at technical interviews (2014) by hanginghyena on Friday June 10, 2016 @02:01PM (#11878463)
Brilliant!

I may wind up stealing this as an alternative test for more advanced programmers; everything here can be done using the Python Standard library.

And kudos to those of you who suggested in-memory storage vs. writing it out to a table.

Re:People suck at technical interviews (2014) by asimuvPR on Friday June 10, 2016 @02:54PM (#11878940)
Weird thing is I was writing the code in my head a I read the instructions. Hard to believe people would fail that but years of hiring have shown its true.