I honestly love these sorts of questions. I love asking them in interviews too. There’s no real right answer and it demonstrates an ability to think outside the box
I only like it when it’s like expected to be that way … the problem that I see in tech interviews is that there’s an expected path to solving these and they don’t “actually” reward out-of-the-box thinking … they want to nudge you to their answer and I find that boring.
The right answer is always whatever makes the interviewer think you’re smart. I bullshit my way through these because I have zero respect for them. Every interview question asked to me should be directly related to the job description. Thankfully I’m a professional bullshitter and they’re easy as cake because impressing people who ask those questions is usually easy by the nature of the reason the question is asked in the first place (to appear competent). Love getting those jobs though!
I honestly love these sorts of questions. I love asking them in interviews too. There’s no real right answer and it demonstrates an ability to think outside the box
I only like it when it’s like expected to be that way … the problem that I see in tech interviews is that there’s an expected path to solving these and they don’t “actually” reward out-of-the-box thinking … they want to nudge you to their answer and I find that boring.
The right answer is always whatever makes the interviewer think you’re smart. I bullshit my way through these because I have zero respect for them. Every interview question asked to me should be directly related to the job description. Thankfully I’m a professional bullshitter and they’re easy as cake because impressing people who ask those questions is usually easy by the nature of the reason the question is asked in the first place (to appear competent). Love getting those jobs though!
I believe google interviews throw a question like that. Where there’s no right answer but they just wanna see how the interviewer answers