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Comment on Ask HN: Anyone ever consider bringing a coding exercise for the interviewers

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I have.

A couple years ago, I had a phone interview with one of the big tech companies. The interviewer almost immediately started asking a series of pretty basic questions - something a new grad should be able to answer, where if you can answer one, you can answer them all. I don't have an issue with couple of questions like that to verify the info on my resume is accurate, but he was going on and on with them.

I told him I had a question for him and gave him the question. He giggled and said, "That's an interesting question", then started to ask me another question. I stopped him and asked him to answer my question. He said something along the lines of "this isn't for me to answer your questions".

I ended the interview. I don't think I would have liked working there.

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