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No, taking notes is actually part of the right response.
I would simply get up and leave that is such a BS question lol
^99% of interviewees would just say they would Google it.
It won’t elicit an interesting and thoughtful answer, because the question itself is neither.
There are better questions that can be asked that will provide more insight into how someone problem solves.
“I passed more than 4 on the way in here so I’m going to have to go with more than 4?”
No
Should be taking notes to structure your approach/logic
What position are you interviewing for? A traffic light safety inspector? In any case I’d pull out my phone and google
What do we have:
*car
*pedestrian
*public (I.e. tram)
Each crossing have at least 4.
Feel free to continue
They may give you some numbers, and some of them might not be important. Mainly, through the case you might need to make numerical assumptions and write those down.
For that question I'd say assume just continental US. Then I'd estimate land mass of some sort for the US, and write that down. Then I'd say there's categories of Urban, Suburban, and Rural with certain stop lights per square mile and a certain % of coverage over all US (e.g. 5% urban at x stoplights/sq mile, 20% suburban at y stoplights/sq mile, and 75% rural at z stoplights/sq mile). These numbers we'd chat about and adjust and I'd write down to then calculate the final estimate.
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*google*