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

[Jay Vaughan]

The answer is 22.  22 times.  Not 23.  Not 24.  22.

j.


On 17/10/2012, at 4:04 PM, Ron West <ronwest at gmail.com> wrote:

> That would be my guess too.
> 
> On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 10:03 AM, Tony Scharf <noisetheorem at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 23?
>> 
>> On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 9:01 AM, Jay Vaughan <jayv at synth.net> wrote:
>>> 
>>> 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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