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by giancarlostoro 436 days ago
English is not my first language, and yet I'm fluent, but some of the questions I've been asked to solve are insanely confusingly worded and so I have a harder time because the interview process at some places is unrealistic.
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Many interview coding questions are purposefully worded weird with the intent of seeing if you ask clarifying questions.
I had no ability to do so, it was on some leetcode esque site.
The interviewer might be looking to see how you deal with bad specifications which, in my experience, are also often confusingly worded, vague and/or conflicting.