There was a job interview once where the candidate was presented with a form that had 3 entry fields. They started as like [2, 4, 8]. The candidate was tasked with figuring out what made the form submit and what generated an error.
People would build all sorts of bizarre hypothesis and fail to test them. Good candidates would have an idea, then try to invalidate it.
It was for a QA role, where the ideal candidate would have good debugging skills instead of running with the first thing that came to mind.
There was a job interview once where the candidate was presented with a form that had 3 entry fields. They started as like [2, 4, 8]. The candidate was tasked with figuring out what made the form submit and what generated an error.
People would build all sorts of bizarre hypothesis and fail to test them. Good candidates would have an idea, then try to invalidate it.
It was for a QA role, where the ideal candidate would have good debugging skills instead of running with the first thing that came to mind.
Edit: oh, it was basically this guy: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/07/03/upshot/a-quick-puzzle-to-test-your-problem-solving.html