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This comes up every now and then on social websites and every time I completely disagree that it reads like Feynman or that Feynman would react that way.
He basically said those things in an interview once. So while he might not react that way when looking for a job it really just depends on how much he wanted the job.
http://www.cut-the-knot.org/Curriculum/Geometry/CWStar.shtml
If you rename this 'If Sheldon Cooper applied for a job at Microsoft' this works beautifully :)
(I just read Graham Farmelo's bio of Dirac, and I highly recommend it for those who are fascinated by genius physicists like I am)
I'm not sure Feynman would respond this way, but he's one of my personal heroes. If you haven't read "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman" please do yourself a favor and pick up a copy immediately.
The follow up "What Do You Care What Other People Think?" is also a great read and incredibly heartbreaking.
Feynman or not, it's entertaining to anyone who has waded through several hours of contrived interview questions that supposedly relate to programming ability, and that always have a "right" answer.
This comes up every now and then on social websites and every time I completely disagree that it reads like Feynman or that Feynman would react that way.
He basically said those things in an interview once. So while he might not react that way when looking for a job it really just depends on how much he wanted the job.
This comes up every now and then on social websites and every time I completely disagree that it reads like Feynman or that Feynman would react that way.
To be fair, MS hasn't used this sort of "puzzle based" interviewing system for years.
Uhh. I had one such question asked by the MSFT interviewer 2 weeks or so ago...