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reason enough to fail the interview (lemmy.world)

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[–] BCsven@lemmy.ca 10 points 3 days ago

Because he hadn't thought of what I suggested and it was much easier than what he was trying to program. I wasn't suggesting he write the program, solve it and table it; it was more like empirical knowledge/common sense stuff to narrow options, then fill the rest in based on what made sense. Then its just a horizontal or vertical intersection to find the outputs required instead of a complex calculation every time