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How would you write a program to move inside a square spiral? Start at the upper left corner of the square and walk its edges clockwise. Just before re-approaching the upper left corner, spiral into the square instead, ultimately arriving at the center of the square.
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Senior Python Developer

Interviewed at Citadel

4
Apr 23, 2016

How would you write a program to move inside a square spiral? Start at the upper left corner of the square and walk its edges clockwise. Just before re-approaching the upper left corner, spiral into the square instead, ultimately arriving at the center of the square.

Asked me to write a throttle function in javascript. Well, essentially...he wanted me to write a function that would call another function, but not if it had been called within a certain set time, which is essentially what a throttle function is. I completely flailed, but it's a useful function to have...probably why they put it in the underscore library which is what I based this answer on.
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Front End Web Developer

Interviewed at Google

4.4
Aug 15, 2014

Asked me to write a throttle function in javascript. Well, essentially...he wanted me to write a function that would call another function, but not if it had been called within a certain set time, which is essentially what a throttle function is. I completely flailed, but it's a useful function to have...probably why they put it in the underscore library which is what I based this answer on.

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