What are some good ones to ask fresh grads applying for something rather algorithmic (i.e. not code monkeying)?
>>53327425
"Is the is are?"
Reverse the words in a string, and make sure to use a constant amount of extra storage
>>53327482
are you to be you are?
• Tell me about a time your behavior had a positive impact on your team. (Follow-ups: What was your primary goal and why? How did your teammates respond? Moving forward, what’s your plan?)
• Tell me about a time when you effectively managed your team to achieve a goal. What did your approach look like? (Follow-ups: What were your targets and how did you meet them as an individual and as a team? How did you adapt your leadership approach to different individuals? What was the key takeaway from this specific situation?)
• Tell me about a time you had difficulty working with someone (can be a coworker, classmate, client). What made this person difficult to work with for you? (Follow-ups: What steps did you take to resolve the problem? What was the outcome? What could you have done differently?)
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https://blog.svpino.com/2015/05/07/five-programming-problems-every-software-engineer-should-be-able-to-solve-in-less-than-1-hour
>>53327704
Those five questions are fucking trivial. Should I give them a whole hour to solve that?
Just ask them to write a complete and logical sentence. I bet 70% will fail.
>>53327425
swap 2 registers with only bitwise operators
Before the interview, set them a simple programming task. Ideally you should provide them with the skeleton of the application, so you can compare candidates more easily. Ideally you should supply this a few days before the interview.
During the interview, go through their code and ask questions about their choices.
>>53327704
I hate these fucking questions. I barely remember the times I was doing team work so I have to invent scenarios.
>>53327425
Print an NxN array in spiral order inside out and outside in
Invert a binary tree
>>53328086
Using constant space?
Ask them why quicksort is/isn't a botnet.
>>53327425
What kind of animes do you like?
>>53329511
Draw your waifu on the whiteboard
>>53327425
Explain programming concepts:
What is modulo and when would you use it?
How does a linked list actually work?
What can you do if you get a hash collision?
What is a segmentation fault and how would you troubleshoot it?
What sort of error logging do you put in your programs? (and you'd best be using at least timestamped perror)
