Re:Software Engineering Internship Amazon Interview Experience
by wyclif on Thursday December 01, 2016 @09:32AM
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Thank you! For a few hours there I couldn't believe I was the only one in the thread that understood this.
Re:Software Engineering Internship Amazon Interview Experience
by wheelerwj on Thursday December 01, 2016 @01:18PM
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which can be determined entirely without the aforementioned methodology. if you read the guys article, you'd see that he'd already completed the basic tests demonstrating basic competency.
being able to solve problems is more important than how you solve problems. (generally speaking, yes i know there are exceptions)
Imagine you're hiring someone to do your taxes. Sure, you'd expect them to use a calculator to do all the hard addition/subtraction, or more likely spreadsheets. But if you asked them to add 5 and 3, and they said "I would use a calculator, this is a stupid question, I can't just tell you off the top of my head" then you're probably not going to hire them.
It's a super basic test of 'Can this person code themselves out a paper bag."