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Re:What to do if you get a question you've already seen in a... by romanhn on Saturday January 29, 2022 @01:54AM (#30124367)
Interesting. My signal from a generic function is that this person tends to overarchitect, if my request was about squaring numbers specifically.
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Re:What to do if you get a question you've already seen in a... by nurettin on Saturday January 29, 2022 @02:16AM (#30124465)
You can actually train these people by making them create quick POC projects until they become practical programmers. I would take the overarchitechting person.
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Re:What to do if you get a question you've already seen in a... by exac on Saturday January 29, 2022 @02:00AM (#30124406)
Some people love asking interview questions where they don't state all the requirements, so I suppose the idea is to see if the candidate can discover the "hidden criteria".

This also makes more sense in a language where number types need manual casting.

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