Why 37signals Doesn't Hire Programmers Based on Brainteasers

Re:Why 37signals Doesn't Hire Programmers Based on Brainteasers by kamaal on Thursday January 05, 2012 @10:53PM (#3431876)

Maybe this just means I'm a bad programmer, but I tend to think that problems like "Pascal's Triangle" don't represent what we work on day-to-day.

You are right! In fact I seriously doubt any serious software project that is solving business problems ever works on these sort of problems.

These problems are basically more of testing mathematical knowledge through programming.

They may make a great interview to hire professors but not programmers.

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Re:Why 37signals Doesn't Hire Programmers Based on Brainteasers by gbog on Friday January 06, 2012 @10:44AM (#3433677)

I don't know what you code, but what I code, which classic web apps, requires very often the kind of thinking that solving Pascal triangle requires. I often need to choose how to model my data, how to have it glued together in different forms, etc. I'd say a simple array display with border is similar, even.

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