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SledgeHammer01 wrote:
The question was to determine how you think when large amounts of data are involved.
SledgeHammer01 wrote:
everybody seems to be focusing on the license plate aspect of the question
I think the very simple reason for the focus on the "license plate" issue is: that's what you told us the actual question was.

Now, if you had told us the question actually asked was:

"We want you to tell us the strategies you would employ for storing very large amounts of data, as Google, and Amazon, do: you might use as an example, to make this question more specific: the issue of a license-plate management system where all permutations of the sets ... blah and blah ... are ... blah ... blah ... blah ... and an immediate task is the allocation of an unused license number.

Then, I think you would have received a very different set of replies.

To that (hypothetical) question, I would have replied: "what is the correlation of adding an unused license number of a car from a set of all permutations, to adding a new user, book review, to Amazon, or to adding a new link-listing to Google: are you asking about the issue of generating unique identification indexes in master databases (GUIDS, or some hash) ?"

Note my assumption (which you have every right to be skeptical about) that: in technical interviews, where you know the people interviewing you are "smart," and informed about what they are asking you about: that they respect someone who responds to vague, overly-broad, questions, by pro-actively demanding they be clarified: in the process of which you reveal your awareness of the issues and factors that surround real-world implementations.

Also, I believe a "challenging interviewee" ... who shows intellectual balance in the act of challenging ... and demonstrates emotional equanimity in the art of doing so ... is impressive ... or at least would impress persons at companies I would wish to be employed by.

But, I would make these distinctions: HR "screening" interviews are inappropriate places to be challenging: they ask "mush," and should be given back whatever "mush" they want to hear. "Rubber-stamp" interviews with managers, when you've been offered the job based on the real technical interviews, are also scenarios where you just want to "go with the flow," and appear as a "good citizen" who looks forward to "learning the job."

"Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee." Muhammad Ali

Where'd I put those food stamps Smile | :)

best, Bill
"Our life is a faint tracing on the surface of mystery, like the idle, curved tunnels of leaf miners on the surface of a leaf. We must somehow take a wider view, look at the whole landscape, really see it, and describe what's going on here. Then we can at least wail the right question into the swaddling band of darkness, or, if it comes to that, choir the proper praise." Annie Dillard

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