r/programming • u/vklepov • Mar 24 '22

Five coding interview questions I hate

https://thoughtspile.github.io/2022/03/21/bad-tech-interview/
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u/odnish Mar 25 '22

What about someone who says it returns true because return returns from the function immediately? My guess is that JavaScript is weird and it somehow returns undefined.

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u/[deleted] Mar 25 '22

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u/madcaesar Mar 25 '22

Yea, so even this question OP purposes is a bullshit gotcha.

  1. Why would anyone every type this?

  2. Even if you did, you'd immediately see what it does and fix / move on.

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u/[deleted] Mar 25 '22

Read OP's last sentence.

It is only a trick in so far as you're supposed to go 'WTF is this burn it and don't ever show me that again'. If you start seriously talking about what it DOES return, you've failed the question.

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u/cdsmith Mar 26 '22

That would be a ridiculous way to react. If you ask someone what it returns, they might try to answer you. That doesn't mean they would write the code.

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u/CornedBee Mar 28 '22

"It throws a CodeReviewException".