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A comment on Ask HN: What are your favorite code problems to give while interviewing?.

Re:Ask HN: What are your favorite code problems to give whil... by MalcolmDiggs on Friday June 12, 2015 @06:11PM (#9708881)
I like to give some broken code and ask them to fix it...or give a Class that's missing a function or two and ask them to fill in what seems to be missing.

I tend to like those types of problems more than the "blank page" kind...I've found it to be a closer approximation of the everyday tasks they'll be encountering on the job.

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Re:Ask HN: What are your favorite code problems to give whil... by panorama on Saturday June 13, 2015 @04:54AM (#9710391)
This is my favorite as well. Sure you'll be joining to write code from scratch, but day-to-day, you'll most likely be reviewing other people's code, hunting down bugs in other people's code, and so forth.

I'm a huge fan of "What can you fix or improve upon in this given code snippet?"

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