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[R] Stupidest ways people have solved coding interviews (loops.video)

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[–] astrsk@fedia.io 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I have yet to administer or discuss interviews where using an api was an acceptable answer. Granted my experience is more on the engineering side but it seems odd to me to not expect someone to implement their own algorithm. If they had 60 seconds to answer a multiple choice technical question on a prescreen online test, maybe. But it seems that person demonstrated their understanding on a technical level that should have been expected and explored?

[–] TootSweet@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Oh. Oh no. You misunderstand. My story was about one of the first pull requests a guy opened after he was hired. He put his home-grown bubble sort in code that would have ended up in production in an e-commerce application had I not pointed him to the sort functionality in the standard library.

[–] astrsk@fedia.io 3 points 6 days ago

Oh my, I definitely missed something when reading lol. That’s insane behavior! I hope he learned from the mistake.