Re: A Microsoft Interview Question (aka basic Bayes\' Theorem)
This is all it takes to get a job at MS? Wonder what went wrong.
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The majority of my interview candidates really struggled with this question. To me it shows how superior the Microsoft style of interviewing (solve these problems now, please) is to a more traditional style ("So, tell me about a time when you faced a challenge, and how did you overcome it, blah blah blah..."). I learned stuff in five minutes about the candidate that a traditional interviewer couldn't know in an hour or more.
You'd be surprised how many people show up with "solid" resumes for CODING positions, yet balk when you ask them to write a function in C that calculates the fibonacci series. "Can I do it in pseudocode?" "Do I have to get the syntax right?" "Can I just tell you how to do it?"
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