Ok, so not for people who like long pieces of music that have been broken into tracks. No classical music fans and no EDM fans. What’s the market then?
The problem is that adjusting the base selects for two kinds of people:
1. People who have come across that trick before.
2. People who have a lightbulb moment in the 45 minutes of the interview.
Now, given that someone has passed the test, what is the probability that it is because of 1 or 2? The VAST majority who pass the test will fall into category 1.
The test manages to have both low sensitivity and low specificity. Well done!
Most likely, the interviewers are completely unaware that the solution is only obvious to their uncurious minds because someone else told them the answer. They don’t appear to have an understanding of where quantum-leap ideas come from, or how to foster them.
I was once interviewed by someone who is quite famous in the industry, even then, and he looked at my program for his test and said “This can’t possibly work.” And then later I got the job offer because he’d figured it out and it totally worked.
If I’ve learned anything about security it’s that once someone has admin access there’s no way your system is clean. It might look that way, but the system is lying to you, and even if you clean that part up there’s backdoors and Trojans just waiting in firmware, boot loaders, network stacks, backups, everything. Like does your system have any “workarounds” or can you wipe everything and redeploy? Guarantee it’s the former. Ok well then how do you know this bespoke thing is what was originally written by that guy five years ago.
Feels like the causality might be the other way around.
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