> > > And besides, I don't think I'd really want to work with a programmer > who > > > didn't know what the Fibonacci sequence is :-) > > > > I dunno. Think of the teaching opportunities :) > > >
My concern would be, given that interviews are already a fairly stressful situation, that the developer familiar with Fibonacci is immediately put at ease. I know I can often rattle off the answer to something I know far more quickly and in a confident manner, than something I'm seeing for the first time. Am I a good enough interviewer to distinguish a good developer, and someone who's seen or coded the problem before ? No. For that reason, I would have thought there were other, better, recursion problems out there I could use. Matt