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by sliverstorm 5393 days ago
I still don't understand how a Fermi question makes for a good interview question. How can you make reasonable estimates about something you know nothing about?
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It's likely everyone you interview knows nothing about it, so it isolates logic and reasoning skills from previous knowledge. The accuracy isn't important.
I don't like those type of questions either, I said it would make a good Fermi question, not a good interview question :-) For some reason, some people love to ask such questions. I'd rather ask how to perform face detection on 1 trillion images.