Can I ask for your thoughts on the cycle in a linked list question?
I asked someone that today, and it didn't go very well. I gave him the hint to start with writing code to print out all of the children of a node, then when that stack overflowed, he was able to make progress.
Do you think there are senior generalists engineers who would be great who could struggle with that question? Its hard for me to put myself in those shoes but I believe it could be possible.
The goal of that question from my perspective is to watch them solve a problem that requires recursion. I've always found that people who do well on that stuff tend to get stuck less designing software in general.
I do worry that it cuts out people who would actually be good.
I'm very interested to hear thoughts on this from others.
I asked someone that today, and it didn't go very well. I gave him the hint to start with writing code to print out all of the children of a node, then when that stack overflowed, he was able to make progress.
Do you think there are senior generalists engineers who would be great who could struggle with that question? Its hard for me to put myself in those shoes but I believe it could be possible.
The goal of that question from my perspective is to watch them solve a problem that requires recursion. I've always found that people who do well on that stuff tend to get stuck less designing software in general.
I do worry that it cuts out people who would actually be good.
I'm very interested to hear thoughts on this from others.