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> Having to interview for a new job and realizing that you can't pass the white board questions because you have fallen behind with the expectations of young bl
by Splines 11y ago
> Having to interview for a new job and realizing that you can't pass the white board questions because you have fallen behind with the expectations of young blood. That's my nightmare, becoming irrelevant.
I'd like to think that interviewing for positions that aren't entirely focused on new-hotness still leans on heavily trod areas of CS. Data structures, sorting and searching.
- nikatwork 11y agoA large portion of modern dev jobs are either CRUD apps or data munging. Knowledge of algos are not necessary for those for those domains. It always amuses me when I'm interviewing for some vanilla web app job and they start pitching maths questions. It's filtering on the wrong criteria.
- gaius 11y agoNo, they are filtering on the criteria of "recently revised this stuff for an exam" i.e. "we want cheap and easy to exploit 23-year-olds but we can't say that in front of HR".