How to nail the URL shortener interview question

Posted by gsabo on Friday March 28, 2014 @02:06PM
from the doesnotcompute.biz dept.

http://www.doesnotcompute.biz/programming-interview-code-a-url-shortener-on-a-whiteboard-in-5-steps

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Re:How to nail the URL shortener interview question by cheald on Friday March 28, 2014 @06:49PM (#7490461)

IMO, asking people to write not-pseudocode on a whiteboard is a giant "RUN VERY FAST" signal.

If you want code, give me a computer to code with. I'm happy to express my ideas on a whiteboard, but doing a syntax test with a marker means you suck.

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