Trick questions are a waste of every one’s time IMHO and it was something I made sure to not do when I took over the hiring process at my job.
It’s a form of hazing and rarely does it have any connection to the day-to-day work you do in the job. All of our tests or questions relate directly to the work we will ask you to do in the job, anything else is just trying to be clever and I dislike cleverness in both job interviews and code in general. Cleverness almost always means inscrutable and unmaintainable.
It’s a form of hazing and rarely does it have any connection to the day-to-day work you do in the job. All of our tests or questions relate directly to the work we will ask you to do in the job, anything else is just trying to be clever and I dislike cleverness in both job interviews and code in general. Cleverness almost always means inscrutable and unmaintainable.