[Gayle]

@strlen Again, some of the questions are absolutely 100% FAKE.

So if some questions (like the "why are manhole covers round") are definitely fake, and others seem very weird (like the dead beef one), isn't is more likely that that question is fake too?

[strlen]

> So if some questions (like the "why are manhole covers round") are definitely fake, and others seem very weird (like the dead beef one), isn't is more likely that that question is fake too?

It may sound fake to you, for a specific team you interviewed people for. But, it's an entirely reasonable question to ask for someone who claims low-level experience for a team that actually does low-level work. Use a product your ex-employer has built to search for '0xdeadbeef' and you'll see this technique is not just a piece of esoterica.

There are many kinds of software engineers: a low-level hacker may just be as puzzled by "support vector machines" (why do they need our support?!) as you are by 0xdeadbeef.

[Edit: last point is why lists like this are meaningless. This question likely gets asked by teams who do low-level work, other questions get asked by teams who do machine learning, etc...]