How to Interview Engineers

Re:How to Interview Engineers by triyambakam on Monday October 12, 2020 @02:57PM (#24758043)

Conceptually I know what a priority queue is and how it works but I haven't built one, though I've used many. How satisfied would you be if an interviewee implementated it in pseudo code?

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Re:How to Interview Engineers by shaftway on Monday October 12, 2020 @03:05PM (#24758146)

Thrilled. Probably a strong hire. I don't expect anyone to know what one is off the top of their head, but if I explain the goal to you I expect you to figure out roughly how to accomplish it without using XPath.

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Re:How to Interview Engineers by robocat on Monday October 12, 2020 @03:53PM (#24758724)

Now someone is going to use “Implement a priority queue using XSLT/XPATH given this XML data” as an interview question for a new hire... filtering for people willing to take the job even after being asked to do that!

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