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by calabin 525 days ago
This screen is after the "walk us through your resume, explain what you've built" conversation, where we ask them about specific challenges, decisions they made, etc.

Everyone who has made it to this screen has already spoken to us about their previous work and at least seemed to have some skill in their general area of programming.

What we're testing for doesn't need to be memorized or practiced. Anyone who can program for money should be able to do things like FizzBuzz, repeat the pattern in Pascal's Triangle with a for loop, or come up with a basic strategy to eliminate non-primes.

Even if you blow the part of the interview where you need to identify prime/not-prime, as long as you show us that you have a process you're fine.

Maybe we just suck at or are too charitable when it comes to processing what candidates have claimed to have done - I'm unsure.