I do not like trivia-heavy interview techniques because they test for shared experience which exposed one to the trivia.
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Note how rarely these trivia questions ask about things that undergrad programs don't teach well like e.g. SQL.
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"Given a SQL query and the output from EXPLAIN tell me whether we have a problem and if so what one needs to do" very rarely asked.
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@patio11 Not just undergrad. I aced an "implement topological sort" question because I had recently needed to use that in production code.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@patio11 I once missed a question on skip lists, which I'd never heard of and hadn't even been invented yet when I studied computer science.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@patio11@bitprophet I have a list of problems to review solutions to for interviews for this reason.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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