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A Software Engineering Interview Question: Computing the Median

Kris Shamloo shares a software engineering interview question he likes to use: computing the median of an array. He explains that he avoids puzzle questions and instead prefers straightforward problems that have depth for exploring topics like sorting algorithms, edge cases (empty arrays, even-length arrays), and time/space complexity trade-offs. The article begins introducing the question but is cut off, appearing to be an incomplete or truncated blog post.

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I don't ask puzzle questions, I find them low value.
Instead, I ask questions that are straightforward but have a few angles with which to explore deeper topics.
Write a function that takes an array of numbers and returns the median.

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