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I think the overemphasis of big O, especially during job interviews, is a sad thing. I think multi-threading is an equally important skill, that gets less atte

I think the overemphasis of big O, especially during job interviews, is a sad thing. I think multi-threading is an equally important skill, that gets less attention.

SamReidHughes 10y ago
It's not. The reason is, a lot of stuff isn't multithreaded or is just a bunch of threads talking to a database. (I've been asked questions about multithreaded stuff, in interviews at companies that specifically did multithreaded stuff. Companies that talked to databases would be better off asking SQL stuff.)