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Re: XOR Swap - Stack Overflow for Tech Interview Questions

#6
Haha, this is just the logical successor to brain dumps http://mcse-braindumps.net/

"if you read our exam dumps Seriously, you will pass the exam 100%"

vs

"candidates will be able to leap through the common hurdles of technical interviews"

These sites do neither candidates nor interviewers any favours.

Re: XOR Swap - Stack Overflow for Tech Interview Questions

#7
What's the goal of this site? I'm not sure I'd want to ask someone a question that they may have already read the answer to. When I interview someone, I want to know what they actually know or can figure out with hints, not whether they have Googled for the right list of questions.

Edit: oh, even worse, it tags them by the company that asks the question. Great. I'm sure those companies will appreciate having to come up with brand new questions for each candidate. And candidates will really be better off getting in based on memorized answers, then finding themselves unable to solve the actual problems in the job. (sarcasm)

Re: XOR Swap - Stack Overflow for Tech Interview Questions

#8
post #6

Haha, this is just the logical successor to brain dumps http://mcse-braindumps.net/ "if you read our exam dumps Seriously, you will pass the exam 100%" vs "candidates will be able to leap through the common hurdles of technical interviews" These sites do neither candidates nor interviewers any favours.

It depends on the type of technical interview. If it's the sort of drivel that HR throws at coders then the less in the world the better. There are circumstances where this would be beneficial however. For my Google internship interview I searched for examples of the questions they'd ask both to put myself at ease and also to practice.

I didn't go searching for questions so I could recite the answer during the interview, but instead to instead give myself a mental warmup. It's akin to sports people stretching before they run a race.

Whether the questions themselves are indicative of strong future performance is another question entirely, but at the very least I do enjoy the majority of Google's interview questions. Analytical and algorithmic puzzles are entertaining and I think it's those sorts of people that Google are filtering for.

Re: XOR Swap - Stack Overflow for Tech Interview Questions

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post #7

What's the goal of this site? I'm not sure I'd want to ask someone a question that they may have already read the answer to. When I interview someone, I want to know what they actually know or can figure out with hints, not whether they have Googled for the right list of questions. Edit: oh, even worse, it tags them by the company that asks the question. Great. I'm sure those companies will appreciate having to come…

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