Re:How to Interview Engineers
by marcuslager on Tuesday June 27, 2017 @06:52AM
(#14644098)
To have a good chat I would hope they drew a coordinate system, mapped both appointments in Euclidian space, and then did an intersect between vector A (first appointment) and vector B (second appointment) to see if there are any data points in common.
[ Parent
| on HN ]
What does this mean?
Re:How to Interview Engineers
by marcuslager on Wednesday June 28, 2017 @03:58AM
(#14652429)
For a good discussion, instead of looking at the problem strictly programmatically, you could look at it as something you could map in vector space.
The dimensions of appointments are [startTime, endTime, location]. If you have points in one appointment that intersect with other appointments, then you have a collision.
This problem is solved with a couple of simple if statements. Finding a "solution" that is more complex than necessary or introduces knowledge that really isn't needed is the sign of a programmer who... over-engineers and is likely to be a detriment.