Employers are looking for staff who will do their best work all the time, not just when they are explicitly asked.There is an interesting thread on whether we should explicitly mention that scalability is important in solutions. Some discussants (rip-off, speciesUnknown) think we should stress it more. We believe that candidates who need to be reminded may still be acceptable diligent programmers handling all the boundary cases, but should not score 100% (see also this post). In line with this thinking TheBuzzSaw observes:
Algorithmic correctness, protection against overflow, and appropriate big-O design are not exactly stretches for a problem this small. [...] If you don't do these things naturally in your coding, frankly, you're not qualified.
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