Questions like that are asked more to find out how people cope psychologically with ridiculously hard requirements.
It's more like -- how they cope with some one deliberately playing with their head.
Or if they're not deliberately playing - they're at at least acting very, very pretentiously. Believing that they know how to cook up a "test" for real-life problem-solving skills. When in reality they're just parroting some toy problem they read on the internet somewhere. Or that someone that they thought was cool gave them in an interview way back when.
Can they start picking it apart, and at least find some bits of it they can solve, or do they squirm, or whine, or rage quit?
In a completely contrived and artificial context that not only bears very little resemblance to the conditions in which developers actually do need to solve difficult real-life problems - but in many ways is in fact a grotesque distortion of those conditions.
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Questions like that are asked more to find out how people cope psychologically with ridiculously hard requirements.
Can they start picking it apart, and at least find some bits of it they can solve, or do they squirm, or whine, or rage quit?
Attacking ridiculously hard requirements is a valuable skill even in crud jobs.
Questions like that are asked more to find out how people cope psychologically with ridiculously hard requirements.
It's more like -- how they cope with some one deliberately playing with their head.
Or if they're not deliberately playing - they're at at least acting very, very pretentiously. Believing that they know how to cook up a "test" for real-life problem-solving skills. When in reality they're just parroting some toy problem they read on the internet somewhere. Or that someone that they thought was cool gave them in an interview way back when.
Can they start picking it apart, and at least find some bits of it they can solve, or do they squirm, or whine, or rage quit?
In a completely contrived and artificial context that not only bears very little resemblance to the conditions in which developers actually do need to solve difficult real-life problems - but in many ways is in fact a grotesque distortion of those conditions.