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These aren't problems, these are things you learn in a matter of weeks/months from on-the-job experience. Why would you expect a recent graduate to have that? A
by drblast 11y ago
These aren't problems, these are things you learn in a matter of weeks/months from on-the-job experience. Why would you expect a recent graduate to have that? And why would it even matter?
If someone is smart enough to talk about data structures competently in an interview, don't you think they could learn git?
I swear people must be conducting interviews to try to feel smarter than the candidate rather than to find a person who can do a job.
- secstate 11y agoI would argue you can learn the efficiency of a binary tree search in a few months on a job too. And no, often times those people can't learn git on the job because in so doing the mess things up so thoroughly in the repo half the time you have to rewrite history to clean up a bad push. I've seen it happen and this is not an issue of people trying to be smarter than the person they're interviewing. In point of fact, I just had an interview with a company where I'd be forking and improving open source code for building modular website content blocks and they asked me to write a bubble sort algorithm. Trivial, but I hadn't done it in 12 years since college. Now quicksort, that's actually useful, but a bubble sort? I got a little tripped up, remembered it eventually, but the whole time the "bad cop" in the interview was checking his phone, sitting cross legged on the heater and talking about his adjunct position at local, minor university. Who's trying to look smart?