OOP Problems to use for Coding Tests during interviews

Question

As a second interview I get people to sit down and write code...I try to make the problem really technology independent.

My programming problems that I have don\'t reall

Answer 1

You could do worse than ask them to design a MapReduce library with a single-process implementation. Will the interface still work for a distributed implementation? What's the exception-handling policy? Should there be special support for chaining MapReduce jobs in a pipeline? What's the interface to the inputs and outputs? How are inputs chunked up? Can different inputs in one job go to different mappers? What defaults are reasonable?

A good solution in Python takes about a page of code.