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In a 2021 blog post, Erik McClure argues that this activity should be replaced with playing Factorio. Lists like Blind 75 and Grind 75 were created to help people with this activity. Aline (“AY-leen”) Lerner is the CEO of a website named for this activity, which launched a Pay Later Program in December 2021 that gave users 512 or 1024 dollars in credits. You, the reader, are a Norse pagan that tells Criss “Haskell is a dynamically-typed, interpreted language” in a humorous article by aphyr (“AY-fur”) titled for “typing” this activity. Specially trained employees called (*) “Bar Raisers” are involved in this activity at Amazon. Gayle Laakmann McDowell’s best-known book is about “cracking” this activity, which might be conducted on platforms like CodeSignal or CoderPad. For 10 points, name this activity in which you might have to reverse a linked list to get a software engineering job. ■END■
ANSWER: technical interview [or coding interview; prompt on “getting a job” or equivalents with “what step of getting a job?”; prompt on “coding” or “programming” or equivalents with “as part of what activity?”]
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= Average correct buzz position
| Conv. % | Power % | Average Buzz |
|---|
| 100% | 50% | 81.25 |
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