More interview gold by The Codist.
Couldn’t agree more
A fantastic question, not what you might expect.
A good and honest rebuttal to programming interview questions.
Recursion, great for interviews, not so much for the real world.
"It’s like choosing a contractor because they know how to forge and cast steel using coal, iron, an oven and a bellows, when they actually need to know a) the address of the nearest Home Depot b) what to do with the steel once they buy it."
Couldn’t agree more!
I hope to see more people jump on this bandwagon.
The game to get hired is to know CS 2xx inside and out. How does that ensure you are good programmer?
Great post on dealing with programming interviews.
Thank you! A well thought out and presented case against ridiculous interviews like Google, et al.
On the topic of interviews and job hunting I’m constantly flip flopping between playing the game and complaining about the stupidity of the process. This falls on the complaining side.
I’ve been going back and forth with @brikis98 for a while on this and I’m still torn. The idea that someone can assess your software engineering chops by asking you to implement a binary search tree is laughable yet understanding fundamentals is obviously the basis upon which the best developers depend. I think my frustration comes from the idea that recalling trivia and minutiae about a specific data structure or algorithm passes for an assessment of someones grasp of fundamentals instead of focusing on use cases and trade offs. To make an analogy to carpentry, you wouldn’t ask a carpenter how to make a circular saw or a hammer but you would want them to know when to use one over the other.
