Interview like an asset, not a beggar

Re:Interview like an asset, not a beggar by StavrosK on Saturday November 21, 2020 @04:02PM (#25172731)

I don't agree, of all the jobs I had, I've never had to do anything close to a typical coding puzzle. There are much more real-world scenarios you can test people on.

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Re:Interview like an asset, not a beggar by icedchai on Saturday November 21, 2020 @06:52PM (#25173634)

I think it depends on where you are located, the culture, how competitive the current market is, etc. In the early 2010's, it seems the US had a shift towards these sorts of "puzzle" interviews. Before that it was more laid back, maybe a take home test as part of the filter...

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Re:Interview like an asset, not a beggar by maest on Saturday November 21, 2020 @05:12PM (#25173133)

We might be arguing besides each other. The puzzles I'm arguing for are e.g. simplified toy versions of problems solved in the existing code base. That solves a real-world problem, so it fits your requirement.

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Re:Interview like an asset, not a beggar by StavrosK on Saturday November 21, 2020 @05:18PM (#25173167)

That's not a puzzle, it's an exercise. A puzzle is what the OP describes:

> Testing whether I can find the longest palindrome subsequence of a string optimally via a tabular or memoized dynamic programming solution in 20

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