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Lately I had been thinking that task _"fill your screen with colour X (really fast)"_ would make a nice (ugly) interview question, revealing creativity and exploring different approaches.

For maximum points I'd expect candidate given task "fill your screen with black" to simply turn it off.

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I never understood the point of interview questions like this. Like, really? You're going to ask another adult to fill a screen with black and expect them to turn it off? Why??

Because often times interviewers like to feel clever and come off as smarter than the people they are interviewing. It’s a very human thing to do. And something we should strive to avoid as I think it’s a terrible quality.

As an interviewer, you're not looking for a solution; it's supposed to be an ice-breaker, to get a technical conversation going.

Doesn't always work, but good enough.

(OTOH, if the interviewer has no idea why they're asking this, and they're just blindly checking off boxes from "The Greatest Checkbox List For Interviewers (tm)", it will fail like any other tool wielded by a clueless user. A very specific failure mode here is "THE BOOK has The One True Solution, and I'm expecting you to read my mind and choose this.")

this like most trivia based interview questions really just prod "Have you thought about solving this specific, arbitrary problem that pleases your interview lords today?"

Which company do you interview for? I will make sure to never apply.

paint.exe fill tool, black F11

Bsh: undefined command paint.exe

Try https://jspaint.app/.

"This application requires JavaScript to run." /s

You have to print screen, paste, delete first; that's the fastest way to set the image bounds to the screen resolution.

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