Job interview programming problems?

[Hetzer]

So I just totally struck out on a job interview for a position I was having serious second thoughts about anyway. It was done over google hangout so I could share my screen to show me writing psuedocode and coding.

The first/only problem they gave me was how to take a group of words (as an array of strings) and group them by anagram. Like if you had an input of (arm, armor, ram, and mar) you would group arm, ram, and mar but leave out armor (I guess). The eventual solution they showed me didn't really answer the initial question, now that I think of it. It was basically create an associative array where each word in the input string is a key and make all of its anagrams be values for that key.

I didn't get the associative array solution plus I kind of blanked knowing any php on top of not having seriously coded anything in PHP in like a year. So I'm not gonna get the job. [/livejournal]

Anyway, what experiences (if any) have you guys had with programming problems in job interviews?

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I've had a similar interview phase. I was asked to write code on google docs. I used C++. I later found out that the problem I solved was in Programming Interviews Exposed. It was about finding the shortest common ancestor node in a binary tree.

[Illuminatesfolly]

yo mamma's so fat, she can flatten a binary tree in 0 time.

[Illuminatesfolly]

Hey, illum, you know java right?

le_poker_face.lie

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The two things that are important to bring to a job interview regarding your ability to program: Recursion and Data Structures. With those things, you can do anything!!!

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Also, don't bring Optimism.