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This blog post from Google engineer Neil Fraser made the rounds 4 years ago: https://neil.fraser.name/news/2013/03/16/ https://neil.fraser.name/news/2013/03/16/
by gghh 9y ago
This blog post from Google engineer Neil Fraser made the rounds 4 years ago: https://neil.fraser.name/news/2013/03/16/ https://neil.fraser.name/news/2013/03/16/
He traveled to Vietnam and observed a high quality Computer Science education in primary / secondary school. Talking about grade 11 scholars, he wrote:
After returning to the US, I asked a senior engineer how he'd rank this question on a Google interview. Without knowing the source of the question, he judged that this would be in the top third. The class had 45 minutes to design a solution and implement it in Pascal. Most of them finished, a few just needed another five minutes. There is no question that half of the students in that grade 11 class could pass the Google interview process.
- hardlianotion 9y agoTBH, I think I would expect grade 11 students the world over to be able to answer the question on display.
- yorwba 9y agoWhere are you from? I have seen university students in my German CS classes struggle to implement breadth-first search; I would by highly surprised if an average grade 11 student could write a program to compute the connected components of a maze in less than 45 minutes.
- hardlianotion 9y agoDude, I am embarrassed. I didn't read the text properly and didn't realise it was a program. I agree with parent and you.
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