In an interview for a data engineering position that involved frequent communication with colleagues with non-software backgrounds, I was given short snippets of code and asked to find any bugs and explain why the code didn't work in a way that anyone could understand.
I thought this was a really good question for the role since it tested both my technical knowledge and my communication ability. It came across to me as a condensed version of the type of work I would've been doing there on a daily basis.
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In an interview for a data engineering position that involved frequent communication with colleagues with non-software backgrounds, I was given short snippets of code and asked to find any bugs and explain why the code didn't work in a way that anyone could understand.
I thought this was a really good question for the role since it tested both my technical knowledge and my communication ability. It came across to me as a condensed version of the type of work I would've been doing there on a daily basis.