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My Current Favorite Interview Problem Memoize

My Current Favorite Interview Problem Memoize

Just added memoize to my growing catalog of interview questions.

Summary of the Challenge

Part 1 is a discussion. Part 2 gets to the code. You can skip straight to 2 when time is short. This problem is particularly useful for gauging JavaScript familiarity since it takes advantage of functions as objects and closures.

There’s a lot of jargon in the question, but that’s not the point of this…

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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…

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