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What will more effectively convince a hiring manager that you can produce results for them? Should you focus on making products? Should you complete programming challenges? Past results are the best evidence of future results. But it’s hard to beat solving a problem before the eyes of your interviewer. Here’s Raul’s question: Candidate Question: Preparing… Continue reading Learn to Do

Whole Root Challenge

Interviewed another candidate today.  A colleague used a challenge based on computing square roots.  It’s a very simple problem and still gives a quick feel for a candidate’s comfort with JavaScript and solving problems with code.

I’ve added it to the (tiny) suite of interview code challenges. See github.com/ManagerJS paper-code/whole-root. I hope you find this useful conducting interviews and preparing for interviews.

Here’s a copy of the challenge for your convenience: