> If they pushed me hard enough at the start, I would tell them and then fail them on the algorithms/reasoning component of the interview.
I agreed with you up until this point, which seems unnecessarily harsh to me
I agreed with you up until this point, which seems unnecessarily harsh to me
In the hundred or so interviews I’ve given, I’ve never had a candidate persist in forcing questions along these lines from the very start, even after I have turned the question back around at them. If you force me to give you hints out of the gate, something very weird is going on.