Coding interview on paper

[europetractor]

So did you hand in a blank piece of paper?

She looked at the nearly blank piece of paper and asked "There is nothing here? "

I replied along the lines of "I don't use my head to store information that can be readily available to me by a computer at the time when I need the information. "


The scary thing to me is that there actually are trans-human beings who are going that deep just to get their first job. Me... I prefer to keep my life memories.

[vetran]

Select * from whatevertable

Dump into excel and manipulate as required

works fine until you get to > 100k lines and/or end up with a few vlookups / match. So thats everyday for most people.

Real men group by.

[BigRed]

PowerBI rules

[LondonManc]

PowerBI rules

[MrMarkyMark]

She looked at the nearly blank piece of paper and asked "There is nothing here? "

I replied along the lines of "I don't use my head to store information that can be readily available to me by a computer at the time when I need the information. "


The scary thing to me is that there actually are trans-human beings who are going that deep just to get their first job. Me... I prefer to keep my life memories.

So, you are basically readily admitting to them that you are a Google developer type jockey with poor information retention skills?

I'm guessing you didn't get the role