During the Job Interview Challenge Series we are running here at Dev102.com, we usually get some comments from readers who think that the quality of a specific question is not good. Here are some of those comments:

1. “I hate interview questions like this, as it’s just a race to see who gets the a-ha moment first“.
2. “This is not a good interview question. What does it tell you about someone’s engineering ability? Little. It’s a brain-teaser; either you get it or you don’t”.
3. “Really enjoying the problems so far but I’m a little disappointed with this one. I prefer ‘thinking’ problems to ‘research’ ones“.
4. “Isn’t this an awfully language-specific question?“.
5. “If you presented this problem in an interview and made me an offer, I’d turn you down“.

On the other hand, many readers provided answers to the questions and enjoyed participating in those challenges. Some thought that the questions are very good: