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A brilliant professor of mine liked to say "The Answer of the Engineer: it depends".



That is nearly the answer i give to every questions. But when i asked for more detail no one likes it. They all simply want "answers".

Well much like most things in life, there is no such thing as concrete answer.


I keep pushing the message that getting a "correct[tm]" answer to a technical question is probably not the answer you should be looking for. Problem solving skill trumps rote knowledge every time.

I recently wrote a somewhat lengthy post on the subject, after realising how bad some companies are at this: https://smarketshq.com/notes-on-interviewing-engineers-a4fa4...




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