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>haven't taken math course in several years
>graduated from university years ago
>getting ready to to interview for my first job since being a neet
>position is in electrical engineering, my major
>brush up on ohms law, basic circuitry, industry design standards
>go to job interview
>goes pretty well, shooting the shit about new electrical infrastructure like Tesla solar roofs
>suddenly the guy brings up algorithms and functions and mentions "stage 2" and another interviewer
>whiteboard walks in and tells me to sum the primes to two million

>> No.8807022

what happens next??

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8807041

I hate forced memes like this.

>> No.8807224

>>8807022
I choke do and got the we'll keep your resume on file spiel

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8807263

>>8807019
You're in the club and this guy sums your gf's prime numbers. What do you do?

>> No.8807483

>>8807019
>didn't ask for help, didn't ask for computer, didn't show any willingness to try some approximation/asymptotic formula

You dun goofed.

>> No.8807487

>>8807483
and the worst part is that wolframalpha did it in 0.5s, which you could have used on your phone

https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=sum+prime+numbers+2+to+2000000

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