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In defense of coding interviews

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    Kent Sharkey
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    Catching the Biggest Fish[^]:

    The “traditional” coding interview is structured such that a candidate gets a programming question, like “write a function to move all zeros in an array to the left” or “write a function to do level order traversal of a binary tree”.

    Someone must need to know why manhole covers are round

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      Catching the Biggest Fish[^]:

      The “traditional” coding interview is structured such that a candidate gets a programming question, like “write a function to move all zeros in an array to the left” or “write a function to do level order traversal of a binary tree”.

      Someone must need to know why manhole covers are round

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      Tony Hill
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      They are round so you can't drop them down the hole.

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        They are round so you can't drop them down the hole.

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        Kent Sharkey
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        There you go - you have the job. Can you start this Saturday? ;)

        TTFN - Kent

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          Catching the Biggest Fish[^]:

          The “traditional” coding interview is structured such that a candidate gets a programming question, like “write a function to move all zeros in an array to the left” or “write a function to do level order traversal of a binary tree”.

          Someone must need to know why manhole covers are round

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          Sander Rossel
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          How else am I going to identify the companies I don't want to work for? :D

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