alt Hacker NewsMost interviews are based on the premise that if a diabetic can't synthesize their own insulin in their basement, they are somehow cheating at the game of life.
If my wife's blood sugar is high, she takes insulin. If you need to solve a constraint problem, use a constraint solver.
If your company doesn't make and sell constraint solving software, why do you need me to presume that software doesn't exist and invent it from scratch?
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If you can figure out that a problem can be efficiently solved with a constraint solver then you can also write the two for loops and maybe some auxiliary recursive function to solve the given toy instance.
In defense of coding tests, most people who can't solve simple dynamic programming problems generally turn out to be pretty poor programmers IRL.
At least that's been my experience. I'm sure there are exceptions.
What?
It’s explicitly not testing if you can synthesize insulin in a crisis, it’s a general aptitude test for “if we tell you you need to cram this textbook on how to synthesize insulin by next week and then ask you how to do it on a call, can you coherently repeat that back to us?”