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Startups Giving Problems to Solve That They Didn't Solve?

1 pointsby Layke1123almost 3 years ago
I recently had a programming problem concerning a Rubik&#x27;s cube as a challenge problem to get a job with them.<p>The problem was given any color configuration or rotation of a cube, be able to find a canonical form to &quot;look up&quot; a solution.<p>In their minds, you should be able to rotate any cube (24 possible states), and then permute the colors (6! = 720 possible ways to rearrange WYGBRO), and yet, this is entirely wrong from my understanding.<p>In a follow up meeting, they showed me an example case where instead of using the colors WYROGB, they used the number 0-5 instead, and then claimed this was valid. But they don&#x27;t realize that they are breaking their own constraints given in the problem.<p>Is there anyway to prove them wrong? I asked to sign an NDA because I&#x27;m genuinely just curious about how to better my understanding if I am wrong, but I&#x27;m getting the feeling they are intentionally not wanting to admit they are wrong.<p>Is there any thing I can do to actually get a response that shows how I am wrong or seek remedy ?

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