Re:Gaming CS Interviews
by AlchemistCamp on Wednesday September 28, 2022 @05:54AM
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A more realistic answer would have been, "[duplicate] Closed 4 seconds ago."
I agree in principle, but also see how the interviewer might have felt that there's a good opportunity there to assess your reasoning skills about that thing. I actually like it when an interview takes some small detours.
Re:Gaming CS Interviews
by PainfullyNormal on Wednesday September 28, 2022 @12:37PM
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I had an interviewer say something very similar to that to me once during a live pair coding session. I got to a point where I asked him a question about how javascript worked and he said "Hmm, I don't know. Let's see!" We spent the rest of the interview trying to figure out if javascript did indeed work that way. I didn't get the job.
Re:Gaming CS Interviews
by DonHopkins on Wednesday September 28, 2022 @09:39AM
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At least the person who wanted to be your google didn't collect all your personal information then serve you targeted ads.
That sounds like a lame pick-up line, and they sound like a crazy stalker!
Eventually I got to the point where I forgot how to do something simple where you'd usually just google it to refresh your memory. I decided to take his advice seriously and asked him, to which he responded to me basically by rephrasing my question as another question back to me.
I can tell you now there is no chance Stackoverflow would be as big as it is if the responses you got back where riddles.