[dkarl]

If you're writing code to test primeness or generate Fibonacci numbers, I sure as hell don't want to hire you.

Maybe you should have called it the "Greplin Challenge," then, instead of the "Greplin Programming Challenge." It's not a real task, after all; the reward comes from accepting a completely artificial challenge. I'm going to do the challenge before dinner tonight, and before I leave work I could get source code for the solutions from the guy down the hall from me who did the challenge as soon as it was posted -- and you certainly don't want to hire a guy who recodes other people's work for no reason, right?

[rwalker]

Maybe we have a different hiring mindset than dschoon - we're equally happy with people who find the answers or create the answers. In a production system, we certainly wouldn't want hand-rolled primeness checking. But in a programming challenge, we think it's fun to write it for yourself.

[dkarl]

Oops; I wrote my comment under the assumption that dschoon was with greplin, and in retrospect I'm not sure why. Sorry about that.