A leap year check in three instructions

This reminds me of once when I was giving an algo/ds interview (in Java) and the interviewer started asking me questions where one of the answers usually was “to be memorised” shit like this and he started pestering me to give him those answers (even though I said I don’t know and definitely don’t recall) and that too in C. As per him “everyone who coded knew C.. at least in college” and started becoming a bit more hostile. I think it was the first interview that I had ended as an interviewee.

And I call this thing “bit gymnastics”.

Sounds like someone desperate to prove their superiority - now imagine working with them every day.

It is not they way todo it agreed on that, but it can be one of the only way of getting hand wavy persons to get technical. Interviewing can be frustrating when you do not see what you expected. So no need to believe it was done toxicly.

> getting hand wavy persons to get technical

Interesting.

And then I literally said “hostile” in my comment and you didn’t find it toxic? Strange but it’s okay :)

God, everyone has one of these stupid stories, don't they? For me, it was some moron at a Wordpress sweatshop who pointed out that the way to find the number of parameters of a function was through (a now deprecated and unsupported!) arity property.

OK, great. 16 years into my career, and I've never needed to count the number of parameters of a JavaScript function. And if you needed to, that wasn't going to be the property you'd read anyway.

I sympathize, your experiences are of course different from mine. Hostile is such a useless tactic at interviews that I just find it mind boggling that someone would do it on purpose.