My favorite new interview question is "how many seconds are there in a decade?"
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It's the utter innocuousness of the question followed by the arbitrary depth to which you can pursue it with the right candidate that's makes it amazing.
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Sure, there are duds who leave it at 10*365.25*60*60. But then there's the gal straight out of college who realized that securities contracts can exist for multiple decades, and then proceeded to write me a class that calendared *every single day* for the next century...
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Fans of Rent also with an unfair advantage here
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"π seconds is a nanocentury." — Tom Duff So: 3.14 ≈ seconds in a century * 10^-9 (multiply both sides by 10^9) 3.14 * 10^9 ≈ seconds in a century (divide both sides by 10) 3.14 * 10^8 ≈ second in a decade
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Is this any good? Done over coffee on our shopping list without any googling. My beloved will be like “wtf did you do to my list”.pic.twitter.com/TN3HQ7cXxE
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