Coding Interview Problem: Make Two Robots Collide

By me via Stable Diffusion

Fifteen years ago when I was making the transition from academia into industry, I interviewed for a software developer job at Microsoft. The interview was pretty standard, but there was one question that struck me as interesting. After I was working, and started interviewing candidates myself, I often asked the same question. It’s an unorthodox question. I would never open an interview with it. I use it…