3 Apr
2006
3 Apr
'06
9:53 a.m.
In article <6.2.3.4.2.20060403100456.04e7f130 at mail>,
John Foust <jfoust at threedee.com> writes:
And it's not as if the companies are pulling these
questions out of
their own brains. They're cribbing them from other sources. It's as
if applicants need to study the canon of tricky questions as well as
the fundamentals they're based on.
Yes, because the questions are cribbed I've seen books documenting the
kinds of 'brain teasers' that MS and its imitators like to use. So
not only are the questioners cribbing these puzzles from standard
sources, the "prepared" interviewers are cribbing the puzzles (and
answers) from the same sources. I would not be surprised that if you
made a concentrated effort to study all these brain teaser puzzles and
their solutions that you could breeze through this part of an
interview. But what would it show?
All this for the pleasure of "And if you
don't think it's acceptable
to ask you to work on Saturdays, then don't bother showing up
for work again on Sunday morning."
For game companies, that's definately true.
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