Jason Warner
Feb 4, 2022

There are some excellent concepts to brush up on in this article. However, it would be best to be careful when sharing code for standard programming question algorithms. A couple of your examples are what I would accept from a competent junior or mid developer. From a senior developer (and especially a lead), I would expect them to think about the problem a little longer. For example, in your prime number example, I would hope a senior would recognize that the largest possible factor of a non-prime is (num / 2) and make that the upper bound on the check.

I'm not a fan of coding questions for leads. Instead, I think you should discuss architecture and other more abstract topics. However, I recognize that there are a lot of boilerplate interview styles out there.

Jason Warner
Jason Warner

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