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Re:Ask HN: Tell me about how you bombed a technical interview by dubcee349 on Sunday April 09, 2023 @12:17AM (#35500007)
Do you have an example or two?
Re:Ask HN: Tell me about how you bombed a technical interview by rgoulter on Sunday April 09, 2023 @09:57AM (#35502778)
I've given the "(I know the answer but) this is a dumb question" in response to "using two stacks, how would you implement a queue".

I think being able to implement a queue using two stacks is kinda neat. But, nevertheless, it's not a good interview question.

Re:Ask HN: Tell me about how you bombed a technical interview by Apreche on Monday April 10, 2023 @09:13AM (#35511859)
IIRC they wanted to know the efficiency of different algorithms like big O notation stuff. Maybe it would be understandable if we were doing high performance real time programming in C. The job was writing HTTP APIs. I aced all the HTTP and SQL questions.