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Couldn’t you use a separator to make it one line of code? That way it’d be even more dangerous
I did an interview where the candidate said that if it's one line, it runs in constant time. And they were completely serious. And this was in the context of Python list comprehensions.
They claimed this ran in constant time:
Whereas this ran in linear time:
We asked clarifying questions, like what happens to the runtime if the list gets really large, and they doubled down.
And this was for a senior Python dev position... No, they didn't get the job.
Runs in constant time doesn’t ring a bell to be honest…do you mean instantly?
No, constant time means it'll take the same amount of time whether you have 10 items or 10,000.
A list comprehension will take roughly the same amount of time as a for loop, it's just syntactic sugar.
Thanks!
Not sure why you needed to downvote my honest question, maybe the candidate dodged a bullet there, he he he.
I didn't downvote.
If this was a junior candidate or something, I may have let it slide. But this was a senior candidate, which means they are supposed to be a technical leader for the team. I can't have someone in that role with such fundamental misunderstandings. There were more red flags than just that one, I also don't fail people for one gaff (e.g. I just passed a senior that bombed the coding challenge, but it was obvious they were over-thinking it).
Are you... Are you saying EVERYTHING can be hacked with one line of code?
Ever since those Aliens brought us their ancient and mysterious line separator tech, we have all we need to do just that!
Independence day was indeed a great movie. Who would have thought they also use X86 architecture?