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![Bad, Definitely, and Google: //sample ansvers from various interviews
178//Question: Write code to find out if a nunber is odd.
179 //Candidate: Qk give me a minute sounds of typing
180 /Candidate: My ansver is voice changes noticeably from speaking-voice to reading-voice
//Question: Find all the odd numbers betveen 0-100
182 //Me suspecting that the candi
183 I/Candidate: It means that ve find the percentage of i in 2
googled it*: ok, and can you explain to me what does that line mean?
2 Why are ve f
14
//I walked the candidate through this code carefully
single"in the last two lines. This is a candidate who had 8 years total experience
twice. There are no typos, not the " 1", and not the
186 //Me "with a nice voice but nalicious intent* : I understand that it is complicated. Have you ever used this
tore
//Candidate "with obvious reliet: No,never! This is my first tine using it
18 /Question: Find all the odd numbers betveen 0-100
100;
rtil)
193
194
//Question: Find all the odd numbers between 0-100
//Candidate: I am sorry, I have forgotten the exact formala for finding odd numbers
23 //candidate said that finding only the odd numbers was too difficult, and this nethod will find ALL numbers, so
196 /Candidate: I understand, but I cannot recall the formala, so I cannot find these numbers
27
//Question: Find all the odd numbers betveen 0-100
200 /Question: Can you tell me about your professional history?
//candidate: I try my absolute best to make ธure that my code does not have too many errors before I take it
29
30
the odd numbers between 0 and
205 /Question: Count down from 700 to 200 in decrements of
coreot'hinunitt?
completely
the odd numbers between 0-100
211 I/Me: And if I fixed the syntax errors, will it work then?
213
214
//Me: And why is that2
//Candidate: It has logic errors, too
you like
//Candidate: I have been programming for 10 years. 5 years as a hobby, and 5 professionally. know PHP, Ruby
JS (including both node, angular), MongoDB, Myso, PostgresoL, and more
/Me: Nice. What have
//candidate: In the 5 years where I worked professionally, I have worked in 4 companies as a webdex. I have
multiples sites up, all done from scratch. Some I developed solo, and sone as part of a team. I do both
front-end and back-end development. I am ready to tackle any challenge!
/Me: ok. using your language of choice, can you find all the odd numbers between 0-1002
7 //Question: Find all the odd numbers betwveen
0-100
you used your skills for?
50 I/I asked the candidate what this code was supposed to do, and the candidate replied: "I do not want to ansver
1 //So I tried again. Same candidate, next question: Find the sun of all integers betveen 0-100
3 //Me:"Ok and if I wanted this done in Javascript?
more than this."
222 //Candidate: tries for about 3 minutes
223 I/Candidate: I cannot do this. My skill in mathematics is not high enough
6 I/This was the most experienced candidate, with 19 years of professional experience. Nineteen, no typo. This
226
candidate was programming professionally before many of you were born.
/This situation happened with two different candidates. Their responses were worded differently, but the
was the same
//Me: Ok, I want to ask you a couple of programming questions. Do you have a paper and pen or pencil with you?
0 //Question: Assuming you have two integers, x and y, with y bigger than x. Sum all the numbers from x to y
230 //Me: ok.Using your preferred programming language, find all the odd nunbers between 0 and 1002
Example: If x is 1, and y is 5, then sum 1+2+3+4+5
232 /Me: Yes. Write your code down, and when you are done, read it to me, and then ve can go through it
233 //Candidate: But that is impossible! How can I write code without using a computer?
4+i
237
//Question: Find all the odd numbers betveen 0-100. Note that this was a phone interview
67
//What is happening here? Your guess is as good as mine. Candidate had no idea what this code was supposed to do
239 IMe: I am trying to test your programming skills, not your Google-search skills
240 //Candidate: Baha, right! But İf 1 use Google, how will you know?
241 /Me: I wil1 ask you similar questions in the face-to-face interview
1 //Question: Count down from 700 to 200 in decrements of 13
246
//One of the worst interviews that I had, that made me feel genuinely bad, was this one.I tried to capture the
mood of how it went, as I did not get to see any code Some of the actions I describe are what I assume
happened on the other end of the phone, based on the sounds that I heard
//Me: Greetings! Thanks for letting me interview you. Are you ready and prepared?
247
249
//Me: Alright! Let us start. *İntroductions and a bit of relaxing amantalk, candidate is very cool. Qk, so
your resume lists about 5 different programming languages.Are you good in all of them
/candidate: I am good in Javaacript and PHP, and ak in Java
81 //Out of curiosity, I asked: "Why is the answer a double?"
82 //Candidate "Because it needs to store the value taken from _two variables.
so which is your f
252 //Candidate: Definitely avascript! I did a lot of work in Javascript!
253 /Me: That is good. Can I ask you a question or two in Tavascript
6 //Make a standard deck of cards. Shuftle the deck, and draw two cards at random. Display the two cards
Are you
256 //candidate: Yes, yes. I am on the line!
ask you a questi
can try my best to ansver
gentle gloves, ve are not trying to break the candidate
Qk. so you know what odd
are, right?
for (let count
Yes Yes,I know odd number
261 /Me: ok. so ny question is this. Using your favourite language, Javascript, can you find all the odd numbers
8 //This was slowly and painstak
used for the second part which only had two cards, while no loop was used for the
cards... but I decided against
the odd numbers
ok. Why don't you t
then read
fter
you are
//Candidate 'excited and breathless: YES! Yes,yes!
scribbling/scratching for about two minutes, then some furious scribbling for a minute, then the
fast breathing, but no seribbling sounds
1 1/9uestion: Find all the odd numbers betuween
03
05
assuming
x
and
lieve the candidate put the phone down, and started writing. I could hear some gentl
y,
someone crossing out
many lines
on a paper. Then came a minute
/Candidate "voice completely broken
//Me "making a fatal error of judgement by asking: Is everything ak
the odd numbers...uhh
think..L
the odd... the odd nunbers
alm, polite email, much later that
this time I regret that I must decline the
perplexing, let me
Candidate takes the last
once to make
not, then you add
you add
odd, then you add 2
Disregarding the sundry minor errors in the code, the logic behind
functional, but
ribly inefficient
two cards at random. Display the two cards
27 var arr-i,2,3, 4,5, 6,7,,9,10,.0K'
ar arrl
ar two-
36
t (pos
arr pos
50
51
52
ition] push (arrti
for (wamath
finalArr
var indexeeArr.indexof (nevArrti] val
72 //Behold this masterpiece! Read it slow and savour every 1ine, for beauties like this come once
fetine
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