[geraldwhen]

Nope, too difficult, and if you know the solution off hand that makes you look better than someone who doesn’t. For a question like this I would explicitly allow Google and inclusion of libraries, but I wouldn’t ask a question like this.

Less than 5% of our work involves understanding computer science and math, and for those 5% I only need a couple people to really, really get it. For everything else, it’s responding to business feature development, which means asking questions when things are vague, spotting inconsistencies in business asks, and breaking up a big problem into small problems that can be tested and built independently.