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by HeyLaughingBoy 697 days ago
We found that doing both worked very well.

Overall interview is "write code to solve this puzzle." But first, do this very basic thing that is needed to solve the puzzle.

80% of candidates get hung up on the basic part of the interview and never even get to the point of looking at the rest of the problem. But of those that did, we got some great people.