oh my gosh, this google "recruiting test" is incredible (and filled with Actually Wrong Answers, at that!) http://www.gwan.com/blog/20160405.html …
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Replying to @FioraAeterna
That's an SRE prescreen; the recruiter was an idiot if that's precisely what transpired. I've seen that Q&A sheet.
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Replying to @marcan42 @FioraAeterna
Do you know the answer to my question about the quicksort one?
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iirc it only asks about the time complexity of quicksort. Not why it's "best". The other bizarre Qs are also
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very similar to ones on the sheet, but different in important ways. Recruiter misread or he misheard them imo
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Yes, some of the questions don't match what I remember. The gist yes, but not the phrasing.
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Either way, that candidate was Actually Wrong with some of the answers (e.g. inode vs. inode number).
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This kind of reminds me of a "wrote my own libc" candidate I had too. Somehow sucked at C.
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Not being specific with “inode” vs. “inode number” doesn’t rise to the level of “sucking” at Unix IMO
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No, but coupled with the pedantry about "returning" in C, it gets messy for this kind of person.
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Basically it's the kind of situation that is impossible to evaluate with this kind of recruiter test.
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