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Re:The best engineering interview question I've ever gotten by jseban on Monday April 18, 2022 @03:12AM (#31068178)
I agree, there's a million things that can go wrong just in installing, setting up and compiling the project. I see losing a lot of good candidates here because they happened to have the wrong version of some library installed..
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Re:The best engineering interview question I've ever gotten by db48x on Monday April 18, 2022 @05:59PM (#31077154)
This type of question definitely hinges on having a pre–prepared build environment. The author of the blog even noted that getting the build environment set up was not part of the test.
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Re:The best engineering interview question I've ever gotten by sakras on Monday April 18, 2022 @01:52PM (#31074110)
They are given a small AWS instance to ssh into, everything is already set up there. There’s a makefile already prepared that will build it.
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