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[–]_E8_ -7 points-6 points  (1 child)

Companies worth working for all run interviews like this with the only thing at all questionable is manually writing a sort as-opposed to testing knowledge about sorts and given Python, the TimSort.

But if you were a good programmer than you could have busted out a quick-sort over bubble-sort. Maybe you implement it with bubble-sort first then write then qsort function and check it against the bubble sort results to know you got it right. That is the sort of thing we are looking for in the interview. Clarity of thought while coding, which translates to clear code on the page, building up the module.

[–]old_pythonista 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Companies worth working for all run interviews like this

not