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Please share this with your interviewers. It's stupid to reject senior engineers just because they didn't implement algorithm optimization towards the end of an

• jiaweihli 10y ago
  Another way to look at this is that interviews are like tests where you already know what the topics are. So a company with a 'standard interview process' is testing your ability to study for and do well on a test. That's a crude measure of how well you can pick up new things and apply them, within certain bounds. A large majority of these interviews are also testing for non-technical skills too - like communication, patience, humility, and thought process. Don't stress out too much about interviews, they're something like 30% technical, 30% non-technical, and 40% luck.
  • collyw 10y ago
    Yes and its bollocks. I have 13 years experience on my CV. The only time I have ever needed to implement a sorting algorithm was for university exams and interviews. What's the point in studying for something irrelevant to the job? I have better things to do with my time.