Re:I was asked to crack a program in a job interview
by eyko on Thursday September 18, 2014 @06:45AM
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I've been in two interviews where they asked me to code without googling or looking at the reference.
Personally, I think it's as absurd as writing shell scripts on a computer with no `man`, or without being able to refresh your memory with `<command> --help`. Good luck with that!
I was in an interview where they asked me to configure specific firewall rules on a notepad with no access to a terminal, so I couldn't check man iptables for stuff like how to match certain sources/destinations hosts/IPs. And I was not too familiar with the opts (was it --dest, --dst, or -d? and how do calculate the network mask for this range of IPs?). It was also for a junior position so I thought they were taking a piss at me and simply told them so.
Personally, I think it's as absurd as writing shell scripts on a computer with no `man`, or without being able to refresh your memory with `<command> --help`. Good luck with that!
I was in an interview where they asked me to configure specific firewall rules on a notepad with no access to a terminal, so I couldn't check man iptables for stuff like how to match certain sources/destinations hosts/IPs. And I was not too familiar with the opts (was it --dest, --dst, or -d? and how do calculate the network mask for this range of IPs?). It was also for a junior position so I thought they were taking a piss at me and simply told them so.