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Re: (ichimunki) Re x 2: Interview with a Programmerby talexb (Chancellor) |
on Jan 04, 2002 at 23:13 UTC ( [id://136346]=note: print w/replies, xml ) | Need Help?? |
I think we'll have to agree to disagree on this one.
I did write up a pretty succinct description of the algorithim required for the test -- so it was really an assignment to implement a given algorithim in C. This was clearly not a real-world situation (that is, I didn't engage the applicant in a discussion of sorting algorithims), but then few tests are. To relate it a little more closely to the work I was doing at the time -- imagine if a legacy system requires that you do A, B, C, D then E, but the programmer you assign to do that task ignores that information and spends a week coming up with a much better solution that does B, E, D, C then A. It's coded beautifully, it's lightning fast .. but it's wrong because it's not what you asked for. What then? Finally, I am flexible. I remember one situation where I went to my best programmer to plan an approach to a particular problem -- I had one idea, and he had another idea. The result? Aha! A melding of the two ideas which was miles better than either of the original ideas. We were both happy with the decision, and the company got a great solution. --t. alex "Excellent. Release the hounds." -- Monty Burns.
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