Part of me wonders if the recruiting itself is over-engineered anyway. I mean, imagine if you just asked:
Implement Bubble Sort, in 2 Languages of your choice, with multithreading or other language-provided parallelism, with the correct number of parallel threads to be most algorithmically efficient
Would that really not weed out a lot of people? I think it would. I know the above algorithm is hardly production-ready, but the requirements are easy to understand. (It's also a bit of a trick question - there is no optimal algorithmically efficient number of threads in a bubble sort, only the number of CPU cores in the system.)
Implement Bubble Sort, in 2 Languages of your choice, with multithreading or other language-provided parallelism, with the correct number of parallel threads to be most algorithmically efficient
Would that really not weed out a lot of people? I think it would. I know the above algorithm is hardly production-ready, but the requirements are easy to understand. (It's also a bit of a trick question - there is no optimal algorithmically efficient number of threads in a bubble sort, only the number of CPU cores in the system.)