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November 12, 2011 06:49 pm GMT
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Want A Chance To Work At Instagram? Solve This Photo Shredder Puzzle
Coding puzzles have been part of the Silicon Valley hiring process and lore since the days when Fizzbuzz was just a gleam in some HR recruiter's eye.Blue chip companies likeMicrosoft, Google and Amazon all use questions like, "Write a function that takes a string consisting of numeral characters and returns all possible alpha character strings of same length as input that correspond to the keypad of a typical telephone," to separate skilled coders from the chaff. Come to think of it, that function would really come in handy if you want to create customized phone numbers like 247-PIZZA really quickly (but I digress ...).Original Link: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/4dde9ArRhGY/
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