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The last time I wrote about a specific interview problem, I admired the problem for being really cool and challenging, but complained about how the salary was not proportional with the difficulty of the problem. I have no such complaints this time around. This latest problem was for a job with a solid base salary … Continue reading A Cool SQL Problem: Avoiding For-Loops
I’ve been applying for a lot of jobs lately, so naturally I have thoughts about interview questions. I’ve already written about one of those questions, and I eventually want to write about what makes an interview question good or bad. That said, it’s impossible to do that without talking about FizzBuzz, the greatest and most … Continue reading FizzBuzz, Redux
The Problem Your office needs to figure out the minimum number of rooms required to organize meetings for any particular day. To accomplish this task, you have a table with the following information: a meeting ID, a start time, and an end time: For any table of that format, figure out the number of rooms … Continue reading A Cool SQL Problem (And Why It Is Also a Bullshit SQL Problem)
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