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It probably requires a different breed of humanity to actively choose to get involved in any vice-related industry.
Or maybe I will do it too given enough incentive.. who knows.
Equal treatment does not mean same treatment.
A doctor treats both men & women equally, so he gives the woman estrogen and the man testosterone. Would you prefer it if the doctor gave everyone estrogen ?
Imagine if Florida had special privileges like No Federal Tax , and yet continued to remain a s*ithole like, say Missisippi? How would other states take it?
The only people complaining about it are the ones who aren't benefited by it.
We are simply evaluating how you APPROACH a problem with those constraints.
If given such a problem, you throw your hands up in the air, or give me a lecture about how such a problem does not occur in real life, or how it doesn't represent your best-self, that itself tells a lot about you.
My question, as I repeat in other comments is this : WHY do you feel stressed ? Delve into your psyche for just 1 minute and it will boil down to - fear of being judged as incompetent. All we are looking for is someone who can set aside this fear TEMPORARILY. You don't feel pressure if your mom throws you this problem, right ? Can you do the same even if a million people are watching, but just for 2 minutes ?
Even if we throw you a NP-Hard problem, can you objectively spend 2 minutes thinking about it, talking another 2 minutes about how you'd approach it, and then saying, 'This looks like it's beyond my skillset' - That clarity of thinking, mastery of fear, and blatant honesty is worth a hundred github apache open source projects.
People who can't do this lack the maturity to understand that in real-life, nobody really gives a damn about our achievements and failures except us (and very close relatives of course).
The ability to temporarily NOT GIVE A SHIT about what others think of you is a pretty valuable psychological/leadership indicator IMO.
I would want such folks, who may not be able to code up a binary-tree search, but would work through it in the same manner they would at home in pyjamas, to be team-leads or managers over time.
handling stress = managing emotions = maintaining emotions in a stress-test
Assuming all other things are equal, obviously anyone will choose the candidate who can do these questions vs one who cannot.
The problem, obviously, is that all other things are seldom equal IRL. So, the issue now becomes : Would you rather hire someone who has a solid github profile but can't whiteboard algos, or someone who doesn't have any past portfolio but can ace whiteboard algos.
If you give me 20 years, I could probably get a PhD. Given ENOUGH time, anyone could theoretically achieve anything. But the differentiator between candidates happens when the clock is ticking.
I, and most other employers, are not looking for perfect answers. We want to know how you approach a problem under these constraints : short time, high pressure, unseen problem.
We want to know whether you are the type who chokes. It tells us that your desire to look good in front of someone (or conversely, your fear of looking bad in front of someone) fills up your mind more than your desire to solve a problem.
Would you choke if you mom asked you the same question - No, because you don't fear being judged, right ?
We want a similar trait in our developers. We want you to GIVE VERY LITTLE SHIT about what we think of you, at least for the next 30 minutes. We want you to have enough control of your mind to TEMPORARILY ignore our existence and focus on the problem at hand. Granted, such scenarios occur rarely IRL, but it tells us a lot about how much control the person has over their psyche, how honest they are about their limits, what they do when they reach their limit etc. It's as much a behavioral test as an IQ one.
Having said all that, not all companies need non-choking geniuses. Choking geniuses work fine for many.
A person willing to spend time and money preparing to succeed in a scenario that exists in real life (pass interviews), is one of the types of persons I want to hire.
"I'm not intelligent, I'm just able to see enough patterns in chess to defeat Carlsen"
"I'm not smart, I'm just able to solve algorithmic problems based on my vast memory and ability to map new questions to old solutions"
For instance, if you said you were a skateboarding pro on your resume, the first thing I would ask you to do is an ollie.
- those who are too bad for it
- those who are too good for it
Reading this thread only solidifies my desire to ask for FizzBuzz, so that I weed out 2 types of candidates :
- those who are too bad for it
- those who are too good for it
Any user supporting the incumbent government or speaking against Islamic terrorism gets banned.
Similar scenario on r/worldnews. Anti-Muslim posts get removed and users banned, while Anti-Hindu posts get to the front-page.
Reddit should make atleast the 'Official Country' subreddits from obvious bias/influence.
Any user supporting the incumbent government or speaking against Islamic terrorism gets banned.
Similar scenario on r/worldnews. Anti-Muslim posts get removed and users banned, while Anti-Hindu posts get to the front-page.
Not surprising, since there are 3 mods who moderate both r/worldnews & r/india
The same could be asked of 2-day home-delivery 20 years back, or 2-day world-travel 200 years back. Yet, here we are.
If necessity is the mother of invention, laziness is the father.
have you actually added gray-area features ? any anecdotes without giving away your trench position ?
vimshati = 20
how/where do you find such work ?
he has a bachelors and masters in engineering from IIT and Stanford. only then MBA from wharton. granted he did not study computer science, but he is leagues different from a accounting-only number-crunching management-jargon MBA.