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From: gadfly@ihu1m.UUCP (Gadfly)
Newsgroups: net.math
Subject: Re: Interview question
Message-ID: <317@ihu1m.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 21-Feb-85 20:04:10 EST
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Posted: Thu Feb 21 20:04:10 1985
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> Recently, I interviewed someone who claimed to have a lot of 
> coursework in communication theory.  The recent discussion of
> Dirac's delta function (function used advisedly) reminded me
> of a problem I gave this interviewee, to wit:
> 
> The Fourier Transform is defined as...
> 
> ...a.  Prove that F{ d(f(t))/dt } = jwF(w).
>        (What assumptions are necessary?)
> ...
>
> David L. Rick
> ...!hplabs!hplvla!hplvle!drick

Ah yes, HP's infamous interviewee interrogation.  When will they wise
up and figure out that there are much more productive, and certainly
less insulting, ways to discover qualified applicants?  Such
non-standard and uncontrolled quizzing flirts with antidiscrimination
laws, and I wouldn't be surprised if one of these days they got sued.
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