re: the permissibility of googling interview questions for tech interviews.
The person who thinks that they should google interview Qs is the same person who thinks "How are you" is a request for your health status. "How are you" means "It is time for the conversation to start"
It is the same as the Seinfeld joke, where the lady says "Would you like to come up for coffee?" and He says, no, goes home alone & then later says "Coffee's not coffee, coffee is sex!" https://www.tvfanatic.com/quotes/coffees-not-coffee-coffee-is-sex/
♡ 0 ↻ 0So if you think an interview question can be answered by googling, it isn't that the interviewer is unfair or that you won't google stuff like this on the job, the issue is "Show me what you know without googling"
♡ 1 ↻ 0Can you do any coding from first principles at all? Can you fall back on reasoning based on clues & your mental model of how computers work? Or are you literally empty of all abilities except to google, copy and paste?
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