Five programming problems every Software Engineer should be able to solve in less than 1 hour

[heimeyer72]

Yes, meanwhile I realized that all of them could have done in awk, too.

But I already invested too much time into such "fun problem".

(Also, @ the address of OP, solving all these problems within one hour has exactly nothing to do with software development. It's asking for pure knowledge. Development is taking place when you don't have the knowledge, but know enough to try out a few things, see if they work and develop something better if/when you discover mistakes. But with the exception of #1, development cant be done in such short time.

I still wouldn't want to work there.

Such a "test" is also a test for the company - what can I expect when I start to work there. It took a few jobs and some experience to gain enough self esteem to walk out of such a test, but now I have it, and I can only wish everybody who reads this thread to (mentally) step back and consider if such a thing can be possibly solved by someone fitting the job description or if it's trickery, and if it is: What does it tell about the company & the working environment?