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Re:The Programming Interview Experiment by d3gamer on Wednesday February 26, 2014 @06:25PM (#7309016)
But there isn't really a "trick" here, though. The point of these questions is to figure out if the candidate has enough CS fundamentals to construct a reasonable solution to a problem that they've never seen before.
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Re:The Programming Interview Experiment by fsk on Wednesday February 26, 2014 @07:02PM (#7309247)
There is a trick. Loop over the array, remembering the maximum and minimum. If you've seen it before, the question is MUCH easier, making it a bad question.
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