What are the best programming interview questions you've ever asked or been asked?

What are the best programming interview questions you've ever asked or been asked?

Including but not limited to technical questions and riddle-type questions.

>implying anyone here has a job

>Be me
>Be interviewing for PHP job before other languages became hip
>Woman gives me a reading from Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy describing a whale spontaneously appearing and he named everything around him
>Describes a petunia falling
>The question was, "what did the petunia think?"

What...

You heard me.

>if you do front end, will you miss back end?

oh no, not again.

fucking anti-social flowers. That big round thing wanted to be its friend.

Why do you need an escape character?
Should be easy. Hard mode: Don't use the word thing

>not knowing that the petunia thought "oh no, not again"

>fucking anti-social flowers. That big round thing wanted to be its friend.
And if you've read HHTG, you'd know that that big round thing reincarnated as the petunia (hence, "oh no, not again")

fucking useless fan boys
>And wow! Hey! What’s this thing suddenly coming towards me very fast? Very very fast. So big and flat and round, it needs a big wide sounding name like … ow … ound … round … ground! That’s it! That’s a good name – ground!
>I wonder if it will be friends with me?
>And the rest, after a sudden wet thud, was silence.

>What is polymorphism?
90% of applicants can leave.

>I like this book.
>I am smarter and better than everyone.
>People who like this book are probably smarter and better than everyone, too
>Let's ask a question only a fan of the book will be able to answer
>Wow, I'm smart and better than everyone for thinking up such a genius hiring strategy

Protip: Bowl of petunias is actually Agrajag

You don't need to be a fan of the bookS (it's plural as in more than one) to remember a central plot element in the 4th or 5th book (I don't recall exactly which one, but the point is that it is a character called Agrajag)

>be programmer
>not knowing hitchhiker references

Fucking milennials and nu-males.

newsflash: most programmers aren't DnD-playing trekkie sacks of nerd shit

>unironically being a "brogrammer"
pls kys

>not understanding hitchhiker references
FTFY

I'll post the full passage.
Never mind, hey, this is really exciting, so much to find out about, so much to look forward to, I’m quite dizzy with anticipation …

Or is it the wind?

There really is a lot of that now isn’t it?

And wow! Hey! What’s this thing suddenly coming towards me very fast? Very very fast. So big and flat and round, it needs a big wide sounding name like … ow … ound … round … ground! That’s it! That’s a good name – ground!

I wonder if it will be friends with me?

And the rest, after a sudden wet thud, was silence.

Curiously enough, the only thing that went through the mind of the bowl of petunias as it fell was Oh no, not again. Many people have speculated that if we knew exactly why the bowl of petunias had thought that we would know a lot more about the nature of the universe than we do now.


I really think you misunderstand why I am trolling these fucks. Like those people who require certs they haven't researched for job positions. If I meet another CISSP that can't explain how a certificate authority works, she is getting stabbed.

>You don't need to be a fan to make it to the 5th book of the series.
>Knowledge of this passage is somehow related to computer programming

>le instant expert in multiverse theory
i bet you fucking love science

it's delusional Sup Forums NEETs thinking a programming job is some reddit nerd paradise and get triggered when reality kicks in

just look at this little assmangled prick

Two minutes later after this photo was taken, they exploded :(

>filename: pajeet
>"they exploded"

poor towel heads.

They are sikhs

That's the point I was making.

Sick people, indeed :(

No, they are phive

>why don't you have a degree

Uhhhhhh....

>getting this upset over a book
Uncultured knuckle draggers confirmed

>Why is there a 3 year employment gap on your resume?

>I was in jail

Only correct answer

I was working on my now failed startup

EZ, you were freelancing for three years

Nobody's talking about the book, they're talking about what an utterly stupid question it is to ask during an interview for a programming position.

I was a drug addict and I've been clean for 2 years

>not lying on your resume

It's like you're not even trying.

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