Currently contemplating how to tell interviewers I'm disqualifying them if they ask me about Gauss' rule or prime numbers or any such no doubt very cute math tricks on coding interviews. I get it—for whatever reason, you think liking math correlates with coding well. But, well, it doesn't, so this stopped being a coding interview and became a being-into-math interview.
Alternatively, I could start asking THEM math questions. "So you like math? Let's see what you know about FFT, SVD, KDtree…"
“…why stop at toy number theory problems, when surely your fintech app needs compressive sensing and spectral theory and special relativity.”
By the way I fully recognize what a lucky person I am to be able to tell an interviewer to GTFO when so many of my friends are looking for work. Y’all keep looking, don’t stop improving—we’ll make enough work for everyone soon enough. Hang in there.
