I concur. Slightly OT: My daughter is looking for a job in London, but does NOT know anything about the Fibonacci sequence. Girl-friday/actress type of thing?
-- Ciao Richard Foley http://www.rfi.net/books.html On Wed, Sep 05, 2012 at 09:11:06AM +0100, Jason Clifford wrote: > On Wed, 2012-09-05 at 09:01 +0200, Richard Foley wrote: > > > 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'd rather work with a good programmer who can't answer your question > > slickly > > in the heat of an interview, (whatever clever question you think up during > > your > > coffee break while chatting with a group of people about how to think up the > > best interview question), than a bad programmer who impresses you with a > > predictable memory trick during an interview, (aren't we so cool because we > > know the same things as each other?) > > That's fair generally however the question isn't particularly clever and > doesn't require you to know any memory trick at all. It's just a very > simple test to see if you can take a simple specification and turn it > into some kind of code with the added bonus of seeing whether the > candidate spots potentials issues with it. > > As for not knowing what the Fibonacci sequence is I agree that it's not > a particularly good test but if it is specified as either of the two > questions that were suggested then it's irrelevant whether you recognise > and name the equation so long as you can do as asked surely. > > Jason >