Tough interview questions.

[Mark C. Langston]

On Fri, Aug 13, 2004 at 02:34:15PM -0700, Roy S. Rapoport wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 13, 2004 at 12:09:00PM -0700, Michael T. Halligan wrote:
> > I have to interview somebody I don't want to hire in about 1/2 hour..
> > Management wants him because he's their cronie.  What are people's favorite
> > "give them a tough time" interview questions?
> 
> Using Brainfuck or Whitespace, write a program that prompts a user for a
> term and then uses google.com to find the 67th best match.
> 

Better yet:  Show interviewee printout of Whitespaced code.  Ask
interviewee to debug.

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