(Overheard at a recent interview:)
So, Jeremy, tell me a little about yourself.
Because they'll roll and they can't fall down the hole. And because manholes are round.
Um, okay, how about your most recent project?
Turn on two switches, wait a while and turn one off. If the bulb is on, it's the one left on. If the bulb is off and warm, it was the one you switched off. Otherwise it's the one you didn't touch.
How big was the team you were on?
You don't bury survivors.
Uh, what was your contribution to the team?
Light both ends of fuse one and one end of fuse two. When fuse one burns out, light the other end of fuse two.
How would you deal with adding a feature to a late project?
A and B cross, A comes back, C and D cross, B comes back, A and B cross.
How would you handle a conflict between coworkers?
They're seven and a half degrees apart.
What programming languages are you most comfortable with?
Sometimes I'm too much of a perfectionist and I expect too much from my teammates.
You're hired.
So, Jeremy, tell me a little about yourself.
Because they'll roll and they can't fall down the hole. And because manholes are round.
Um, okay, how about your most recent project?
Turn on two switches, wait a while and turn one off. If the bulb is on, it's the one left on. If the bulb is off and warm, it was the one you switched off. Otherwise it's the one you didn't touch.
How big was the team you were on?
You don't bury survivors.
Uh, what was your contribution to the team?
Light both ends of fuse one and one end of fuse two. When fuse one burns out, light the other end of fuse two.
How would you deal with adding a feature to a late project?
A and B cross, A comes back, C and D cross, B comes back, A and B cross.
How would you handle a conflict between coworkers?
They're seven and a half degrees apart.
What programming languages are you most comfortable with?
Sometimes I'm too much of a perfectionist and I expect too much from my teammates.
You're hired.
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Thanks for all of the comments and kind words (well, except for that spammer guy I deleted).
And it's a right answer. Because question did not specify which hands. So I can take any two of them.
alan
And it's a right answer. Because question did not specify which hands. So I can take any two of them."
(Actually, I think it's because when the minute hand gets to the 3, the hour hand would have moved a quarter of the way to the next number. But I suppose you could answer with the distance between the second hand and one of the others)
>>And it's a right answer. Because question did not specify which hands. So I can take any two of them.
Which two DID you take?
Hour-minute: 7.5 degrees
Minute-second: 45 degrees
Hour-second: 52.5 degrees
Of course you could say 165 degrees - supposing the clock happened to be reading 12:30 even though the time was 3:15.
>>Hour-second: 52.5 degrees
Whoops... Those were supposed to be 90 and 97.5 degrees respectively.
That's definitive proof of the hazards of sleep deprivation, right there.
Or it makes lesser material and work to create a circle than a square of a same side / diameter.
I haven't realized people can roll there I thought they just miss the step and fall down. Then it makes some , little, sense to assume they catch the sides more easily or wont be damaged by edge?
I'd be probably fired I think ;)
Nice questions thouh :) Thanks for sharing
You burn 30 seconds of a 60 second rope and 30 seconds necessarily remain, no matter what the length or distribution you have that satisfies this.
iFuze!
Ok, I'm dumb...
But what I dislike more are those questions in IQ tests that ask me to find some pattern in a series of numbers (or shapes or whatever) and predict the next one in the sequence. E.g. what is the next number group in this sequence (and how long is the group?):
1, 1 1, 2 1, 1 2 1 1, 1 1 1 2 2 1, 3 1 2 2 1 1, ....
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Thank You....
Retort.
EVAR!
Retort.
EVAR!
Did any of that matter? Did it f*&k! Because the most important thing was getting divers out of a cave!
Good post.