Lessons from 3,000 technical interviews

Re:Lessons from 3,000 technical interviews by manishyt on Thursday December 29, 2016 @02:32PM (#13279420)

Just out of curiosity: how would you feel if I answered this question by using existing function [1] in stdlib? Would you consider that as (good) sign of knowing the tools or would you prefer a fresh implementation?

[1] https://docs.python.org/2/library/itertools.html#itertools.c...

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Re:Lessons from 3,000 technical interviews by blindhippo on Friday December 30, 2016 @02:41PM (#13286776)

I see it as a positive if a candidate uses an existing solution to the problem. That's exactly what a good engineer would do in the real world.

But then I take away the library/method and re-state the problem. Because the point is to see if they can understand the problem, and devise a solution.

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Re:Lessons from 3,000 technical interviews by manishyt on Saturday December 31, 2016 @01:55AM (#13289914)

Cool. Thanks for your comments.

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