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nwjtkjn on June 27, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: How to Interview Engineers

Sounds like an effective filter to me. Where I work, this would be the first part of one of the interviews, with the second part being something more like "Given a list of calendar appointments, what is the maximum number which can be attended without conflicts?"

bryanrasmussen on June 28, 2017 [–]

don't you need a little bit more info about that list of calendar appointments? like at least an assumed time length?

(assuming the list happens on the same day)?

nwjtkjn on July 1, 2017 | [–]

Yeah I was thinking each appointment had a start time and end time.

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