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Re:The best engineering interview question I've ever gotten by tootie on Monday April 18, 2022 @10:57AM (#31071532)
I absolutely agree with the premise but for the same reason it's a valuable skill it's also really hard to time box. I'm assuming you picked this particular task but you had already scoped it out and knew memcached didn't have any particular bear traps that a decent programmer would step in and lose 2 days?
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Re:The best engineering interview question I've ever gotten by ankrgyl on Monday April 18, 2022 @11:18AM (#31071862)
I had never looked at memcached's source code prior to thinking of the question, but we did try it out before (and measure the time) before administering it for the first time.
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