I was briefly introduced to two interviewers. They wanted me to tell a little bit about my last job.

I told them some success stories. Then they moved into asking me to code. I successfully wrote and executed the code they wanted.

I have interviewed many engineers, and I did not feel the interview revealed much about me, other than that I can code. The conditions were unlike any real-world situation. In the real world, one is used to the style and requirements, and is warmed up. In this interview, a very uncertain situation was thrown upon me.

Even if the company operates in uncertain situations, there is no way that they are as unclear as given. I got warmed up and used to thinking in this uncertain way after about 20 minutes. But, in that time, I was programming slowly. I got good at thinking the way they expected at about the time the interview was over.

I do like programming under challenging conditions, so I would probably enjoy and be very good at this job, if I get the job. However, I don't see how the interviewers could discover this.

Both of them had far less experience than I did. For these reasons, I gave the interview a thumb down.

Simple C++ algorithm: returning a string of a number, inserting commas into the right places.