Project Euler

Post by minusSeven » Wed, Dec 13, 2017, 9:15 PM UTC

fogetti wrote: post #144

minusSeven wrote: post #115

Why is project Euler being shown in hackernews now ? This isn't something new and has been there for long time. I often use the easier problems in project Euler for interviews to test candidates. Having said that the problems in project Euler are more math based in nature.

Can I ask how do you evaluate the candidates with these problems? I mean: do they have to solve similar problems on their daily job as well? Or what is the take-away in your specific case?

Sorry for late reply. I don't give the exact same problem but use these problems for references.

For instance I often start interview with asking candidate to write a program to find a palindrome. After they answer that my follow up question is to write a program to find the longest palindrome in a given string which is a question taken from project euler.

Here I am mainly interested in their logic and approach to problem solving rather than a workable solution first time round. I don't give take-away problems neither do candidates have to do this in their daily jobs.

Post by tytytytytytytyt » Wed, Dec 13, 2017, 9:22 PM UTC

dagw wrote: post #170

tytytytytytytyt wrote: post #155

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You could just look things up with Google, Wikipedia, etc. It's not like it's hard to do that for the first 100 problems.

It's hard if you don't know what you're looking for. And if you just Google "Euler problem 67" you're very likely to find a solution, which kind of ruins the point. It would be cool if project Euler came with an official multilevel hint systems with each hint getting closer and closer to giving you the actual solution .

> It's hard if you don't know what you're looking for.

Yes, that's tautologically true. You do have to put in some effort and thought.

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