Le 2016-08-16 03:58, scott a écrit :
> Continuing on from Andy's experience of interviewing graduates for
> programming jobs, exactly the same thing happens with engineering
> graduates - they can't actually do any engineering (or maybe I'm
> expecting too much of them).
>
> Here's an example problem we ask:
>
> You are given a bucket of water (fixed to the ground) and an open-ended
> flexible pipe leading off into a "black box". All you know about the
> black box is that it may allow some flow into it, at a variable,
> unpredictable rate.
>
> Design a system to take the water from the bucket, and supply it into
> the pipe at a constant pressure (not a ridiculous pressure, just
> something like the pressure you would have in your water pipes at home,
> maybe 3 bar?).
>
> Maybe I just hang about too many engineers, but to me even a
> non-engineer would be able to have at least a stab at some ideas for
> solving it.
>
1. drink water with hose.
2. wait about 1/2 hour.
3. stand next to black box.
4. [REDACTED]

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