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Re:Don’t “Hire by Keyword” by mattkrause on Tuesday July 26, 2016 @02:48PM (#12167900)
Once place actually did ask me to square a number in my head.

Other than a brief flash of insight that you can do something like: 37^2 = (30 + 7)(30 + 7) = 900 + 210 + 210 + 49, I'm not sure what this was supposed to test. It was a fairly small company, but I'm sure they could afford a calculator or two....

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