At 10:04 PM +0100 4/13/10, Nathan Rixham wrote:
Robert Cummings wrote:
> Nathan Rixham wrote:
> Fail on that last one. -1 is not equivalent to FALSE :B
well that's one job I'm not getting :p
cheers for the picking that one up Rob
And that's the reason why I hate test like that!
The short tricky logic questions that interviewer's use to be clever
are just nonsense.
I'll take someone who can solve a problem over one who can argue
true/false logic tables every time. Not meaning that people who come
natural to that sort of logic solving ability do not make good
programmers (because they can -- like Rob), but rather people who
fail those types of logic questions do NOT also fail to be good
programmers (like me). It's similar to the Tortoise and Hare thing --
it really doesn't make any difference who gets there first for both
can run the distance.
I don't think those types of logic puzzles do much to measure
anything other than people's ability to solve logic puzzles. IMO,
it's interviewers "leap of faith" to think logic puzzles are a good
indicator of programming prowess. To many of us, programming is just
doing over until it works.
Cheers,
tedd
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