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Not completely random, but by my estimation being self-taught fully 40-60% of engineering organizations (trending higher as they get bigger) care much more deep
by taurath 11y ago
Not completely random, but by my estimation being self-taught fully 40-60% of engineering organizations (trending higher as they get bigger) care much more deeply about academic CS than they do about whether you're able to ship a product. Those companies are looking for people who fit a mold (a generalized interface) so they can scale their teams out. Startups and smaller companies tend to value people who are flexible and can learn new things very quickly and are less likely to test you on alg analysis and are much more likely to throw you an unfamiliar problem and see how you solve it.
- Fiahil 11y agoI agree, I've been far more successful with startups than with bigger organizations. The irony is, I have a Master's degree in software engineering, but I never gave (until now) too much attention to these common O(n) sorting problems. In practice, I would end up using whatever standard library's default sort function and it would be perfectly okay for most use cases. I wish tech screens didn't rely so much on these exercises; I have limited brain space and I don't like to archive more important stuff.
- sliverstorm 11y agoWell, you could argue that maybe they aren't looking for somebody to use a library, maybe they're looking for someone to write a library.