What are the best programming interview questions you've

>implying anyone here has a job

>>59093425
>Be me
>Be interviewing for PHP job before other languages became hip
>Woman gives me a reading from Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy describing a whale spontaneously appearing and he named everything around him
>Describes a petunia falling
>The question was, "what did the petunia think?"

>>59093510
What...

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>>59093543

You heard me.

>if you do front end, will you miss back end?

>>59093510
oh no, not again.

>>59095785
fucking anti-social flowers. That big round thing wanted to be its friend.

>>59093425
Why do you need an escape character?
Should be easy. Hard mode: Don't use the word thing

>>59093543
>>59093510
>>59093601
>not knowing that the petunia thought "oh no, not again"

>>59096174
>fucking anti-social flowers. That big round thing wanted to be its friend.
And if you've read HHTG, you'd know that that big round thing reincarnated as the petunia (hence, "oh no, not again")

>>59096205
fucking useless fan boys
>And wow! Hey! What’s this thing suddenly coming towards me very fast? Very very fast. So big and flat and round, it needs a big wide sounding name like … ow … ound … round … ground! That’s it! That’s a good name – ground!
>I wonder if it will be friends with me?
>And the rest, after a sudden wet thud, was silence.

>>59093425
>What is polymorphism?
90% of applicants can leave.

>>59096241
>>59096205

>I like this book.
>I am smarter and better than everyone.
>People who like this book are probably smarter and better than everyone, too
>Let's ask a question only a fan of the book will be able to answer
>Wow, I'm smart and better than everyone for thinking up such a genius hiring strategy

>>59096241
Protip: Bowl of petunias is actually Agrajag

>>59096287
You don't need to be a fan of the bookS (it's plural as in more than one) to remember a central plot element in the 4th or 5th book (I don't recall exactly which one, but the point is that it is a character called Agrajag)

>>59096287
>>59096241
>be programmer
>not knowing hitchhiker references

Fucking milennials and nu-males.

>>59096330
newsflash: most programmers aren't DnD-playing trekkie sacks of nerd shit

>>59096381
>unironically being a "brogrammer"
pls kys

>>59096330
>not understanding hitchhiker references
FTFY

I'll post the full passage.
Never mind, hey, this is really exciting, so much to find out about, so much to look forward to, I’m quite dizzy with anticipation …

Or is it the wind?

There really is a lot of that now isn’t it?

And wow! Hey! What’s this thing suddenly coming towards me very fast? Very very fast. So big and flat and round, it needs a big wide sounding name like … ow … ound … round … ground! That’s it! That’s a good name – ground!

I wonder if it will be friends with me?

And the rest, after a sudden wet thud, was silence.

Curiously enough, the only thing that went through the mind of the bowl of petunias as it fell was Oh no, not again. Many people have speculated that if we knew exactly why the bowl of petunias had thought that we would know a lot more about the nature of the universe than we do now.


>>59096287
I really think you misunderstand why I am trolling these fucks. Like those people who require certs they haven't researched for job positions. If I meet another CISSP that can't explain how a certificate authority works, she is getting stabbed.

>>59096308
>You don't need to be a fan to make it to the 5th book of the series.
>Knowledge of this passage is somehow related to computer programming

>>59096404
>le instant expert in multiverse theory
i bet you fucking love science

>>59096464
it's delusional /g/ NEETs thinking a programming job is some reddit nerd paradise and get triggered when reality kicks in

just look at this little assmangled prick >>59096395

>>59093425
Two minutes later after this photo was taken, they exploded :(

>>59096782
>filename: pajeet
>"they exploded"

poor towel heads.

>>59096782
>>59096825
They are sikhs

>>59096852
That's the point I was making.

>>59096852
Sick people, indeed :(

>>59096852
No, they are phive

>why don't you have a degree

Uhhhhhh....

>>59096464
>>59096763
>getting this upset over a book
Uncultured knuckle draggers confirmed

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>Why is there a 3 year employment gap on your resume?

>>59097358
>I was in jail

Only correct answer

>>59097358
I was working on my now failed startup

>>59097358
EZ, you were freelancing for three years

>>59097296
Nobody's talking about the book, they're talking about what an utterly stupid question it is to ask during an interview for a programming position.

>>59097358

I was a drug addict and I've been clean for 2 years

>>59097358
>not lying on your resume

It's like you're not even trying.

>>59096287
Underrated post

>>59097358
Severe emotional and psychological instability