> What 2 hour project can you assign that would let the candidate go into enough...

user5994461 on Nov 10, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: A Method I’ve Used to Eliminate Bad Tech Hires

> What 2 hour project can you assign that would let the candidate go into enough depth for you to judge their code, design decisions, architecture skills?

Write a program that reads a text file, and output each unique word with the number of times it appeared.

The program must be done in a programming language among: C, C++, C#, Go, Java, PHP, Python, Ruby.

umanwizard on Nov 13, 2016 [–]

foreach word: ++(wordmap[word])

print wordmap

This is on the level of a pretty simple first phone screen problem.