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One of the interviewers asked me to name a software I used and liked. I said emacs. He then asked to draft a design of emacs on the whiteboard. First, a high-level design, then refine one of the modules, etc.

That's a fantastic interview question. Much better than the usual "solve this tiny problem in 20 lines of code on a whiteboard". After you've reversed the words in a string more than twice it gets a bit boring.



I agree, it can be a fantastic interview question.

For the record, though, they did questions of the "reverse a string" type too. Which is necessary, in my opinion.




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