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Re:What do the best interviewers have in common? by viewtransform on Thursday November 30, 2017 @07:23PM (#15820941)
At my Google screening interview, I was asked "How would you teach recursion to a 7 year old child ?"

Apparently, the correct answer was Romanesco broccoli.

I failed the interview and briefly sank into a depression questioning everything I knew about raising young children, self-similarity and recursion.

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Re:What do the best interviewers have in common? by abhirag on Thursday November 30, 2017 @08:58PM (#15821352)
Well clearly the answer was, "By teaching him recursion at age 6 and passing the age incremented by 1 as an argument because what kind of monster would let kids play with mutable state" :D
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Re:What do the best interviewers have in common? by shard on Thursday November 30, 2017 @11:53PM (#15822015)
How about that old joke: "Pete and Repeat sat in a boat. Pete fell out, who's left?" Whether or not it works for the interview, it definitely works at annoying 7-year-olds.
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Re:What do the best interviewers have in common? by coupdejarnac on Thursday November 30, 2017 @09:49PM (#15821543)
Interesting, I AM teaching 7 year olds about recursion, but I doubt any of them have seen Romanesco broccoli. Anyway, the example I use to demonstrate the fibonacci sequence is sunflower seeds.

I hope you got another job that you enjoy.

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