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"Oh yeah, you’ve been writing web applications everyday for the last five years. Great. Can you please go up to a blackboard and using chalk write out how to re
by Mc_Big_G 11y ago
"Oh yeah, you’ve been writing web applications everyday for the last five years. Great. Can you please go up to a blackboard and using chalk write out how to reverse a binary tree?"
Hahaha, I feel like this was taken directly from one of my HN comments.
- pmiller2 11y agoI actually prefer chalk to whiteboards, but that's a remnant of studying math in college rather than CS. (Which, BTW, is one reason I've heard for my resume getting screened out before. Not the chalk thing, but the math thing. :P)
- frandroid 11y agoOff to the chalk pile!
- CalRobert 11y agoChalk always struck me as better for the environment, too.
- Cyph0n 11y agoMIT still has chalkboards. I'm sure there's a reason behind that.
- pmiller2 11y agoBetter for the environment, yes, but not for office equipment (or so I've heard). Also, they don't sell chalk at Office Depot, IIRC. :P
- marcosdumay 11y agoIt's not better for your lungs.
- juped 11y agoThis is extremely dubious! I trust comparatively coarse rock dust much more than ultrafine marker dust with I'm-not-sure-what in it.
- JustSomeNobody 11y agoI don't get it. If the job you're applying for relies heavily on data structures and algorithms, why can't they ask this? If you're stepping up from writing web apps, you should have done some homework first.
- vonmoltke 11y agoThe problem is, most don't. If you have been writing web apps for five years and are interviewing for another job doing the same, it is highly unlikely that anything the interviewer asks that you have not already been dealing with on a daily basis is relevant to your actual ability to do the job.
- Mc_Big_G 11y agoWeb development relies heavily on data structures and algorithms?
- freyr 11y ago> "If the job you're applying for relies heavily on data structures and algorithms" JustSomeNobody figured that if the interviewer is quizzing you on data structures and algorithms, surely the job you're applying for must rely on such knowledge. If only.
- JustSomeNobody 11y agoNo, I assume you did your homework and found out that the company in fact DOES rely heavily on data structure and algorithms. If the job is hiring for just another web/CRUD dev, then sure, asking CS questions might be out of place.
- phil21 11y agoWhich is exactly what everyone gets upset about... No one cares if you get asked relevant questions for the job at hand. If they need a highly skilled algorithm guy (hint: this is extremely exceedingly rare) then by all means. The vast majority simply ask these questions for their own ego boost (lulz look at that idiot who can't even do basic CS101! good thing we're so smart!), as well as a means for social signaling that you came from the right background. It's basically a huge waste of time and mental energy for what amounts to mental masturbation from the interviewers.
- komaromy 11y agoI'm guessing it was a reference to this tweet: https://twitter.com/mxcl/status/608682016205344768 https://twitter.com/mxcl/status/608682016205344768