!@#!@$ interview question, wtf ..

[Jay Vaughan]

Had a phone interview for a major mobile hardware developer today, would be a nice job doing neat cross-platform stuff in Unity3D .. so I think I'm doing great, answering the C++ questions (virtual destructors, lol!), Android lifecycles, and so on .. then, this one, which I've heard used a million times before, but got wrong 3 times before I finally worked it out:

"How many times a day does the minute and hour hand on a clock, overlap?"

P'shaw!  Why didn't I get it right the first time I tried to figure it out, grr..  ;)

Out of phase, out of time, out of my mind trying to work out the right answer while I can hear the interviewer grinning like a monkey on the other end .. :P

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Jay Vaughan