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When I worked there in the early 2000's I had a friend of a friend whose fiancée graduated with a bachelor's degree in either CS or EE and applied for a developer position. Somehow, and I struggle to understand the mechanics of this because engineering was highly compartmentalized away from the "business" parts of the business, they managed to turn her down for an engineering role and got her a job in marketing.

Also, the manhole cover question was considered déclassé as early as 1999. One that was still making the rounds was...let's see if I can remember this... You have a soda machine that has three buttons, Coke, Pepsi, and Random (Coke or Pepsi). You know that your trickster coworker has swapped all of the button labels, so none of them are correct. What's the optimal strategy for getting a Coke out of the machine?

parent 13of40 5 years ago

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