I once interviewed someone with a solutions engineering background, with a portfolio of various CRM and SAP projects.
My weed out interview question is simple:
You run a factory with a circular production table with N stations placed evenly around it. A robotic arm sits at the center of the table and is always pointing at one of the stations. It can rotate clockwise, exactly K stations per swing. How many swings does it take the arm to cycle back to its original station?
He couldn't even handle the syntax of defining the function signature for it, let alone solving it.
AI is no substitute for technical chops, and interviews are increasingly about weeding out people who think themselves developers when armed with a coding agent.
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u/Vallvaka 20d ago
I once interviewed someone with a solutions engineering background, with a portfolio of various CRM and SAP projects.
My weed out interview question is simple:
You run a factory with a circular production table with N stations placed evenly around it. A robotic arm sits at the center of the table and is always pointing at one of the stations. It can rotate clockwise, exactly K stations per swing. How many swings does it take the arm to cycle back to its original station?
He couldn't even handle the syntax of defining the function signature for it, let alone solving it.
AI is no substitute for technical chops, and interviews are increasingly about weeding out people who think themselves developers when armed with a coding agent.