If Richard Feynman applied for a job at Microsoft (2002)

Re:If Richard Feynman applied for a job at Microsoft (2002) by giobox on Friday July 23, 2021 @03:03PM (#27934405)

I’ve found in interviews you can just declare your assumptions for the things you don’t know.

Ultimately these sorts of job interview questions are designed to evoke a response that can let you demonstrate how you would go about solving/explaining the problem; actually solving it correctly is rarely required or expected. I’d just say having never seen a 747, for purposes of the calculation let’s assume they are 300m long with a 10m diameter etc etc and proceed to do a terrible job of calculating how many ping pong balls fit.

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Re:If Richard Feynman applied for a job at Microsoft (2002) by zinclozenge on Friday July 23, 2021 @03:32PM (#27934701)

You would think that ultimately the question is about the thought process. But that usually gets lost and it devolves into a question that gets asked with an expected answer.

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