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		collyw on Oct 21, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Dear Startups: stop asking me math puzzles to figu... It takes me a month or two to be comfortable with a new language. How long do you expect your interview to last?

_ak on Oct 21, 2013 [–]

I guess that proposed interview is supposed to get people out of their comfort zone and test whether how quickly they can adapt and learn from a manual and simple examples and then at least be able to write simple programs.

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