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Re:If Richard Feynman applied for a job at Microsoft (2002) by flavius29663 on Friday July 23, 2021 @03:14PM (#27934496)
Which is why companies started moving into other questions that have no relation to your job, like designing youtube. There is such a slim chance that you'll end up designing youtube at your tenure there, in a team of 2...that it's probably more likely to fill a jet with balls. Yet somehow people are not bothered by the design youtube question the same way they are about balls in a plane. It's true that the youtube version has technologies that are somewhat related to what you'll be doing, but in practice you won't have the opportunity to choose that many technologies for a single product, you'll be a cog in the machine anyway.
Re:If Richard Feynman applied for a job at Microsoft (2002) by thinkharderdev on Friday July 23, 2021 @03:53PM (#27934895)
Yeah, I think in general people lump Fermi estimation problems in with "brain teaser" questions (which I think really are silly) because they are both technical(ish) interview questions that have nothing to do (superficially) with software engineering.