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What does any of that have to do with "not using algorithms"?
by moron4hire 9y ago
What does any of that have to do with "not using algorithms"?
- pjmlp 9y agoDepends if the whiteboard questions are how to implement a hash table, or a B+ Tree sorting algorithm directly on hard disk minimizing read/writes per node, while constrained to a specific amount of RAM. Writing B+ Trees in such scenarios is not something that one does on daily enterprise coding. Yes, I had that question done to me at Google, on a phone interview.
- moron4hire 9y agoThat's funny, the last time I worked for a Fortune 500 company, I received major accolades for the cost savings and SLA improvement I achieved thanks to--get this--my knowledge of data structures an algorithms. If you don't know math, you can't argue you don't need it. You obviously never learned to use the tools available to you, so you don't know what you're missing out on.
- pjmlp 9y agoI surely do know math, lots of it, including from my time at CERN in high throughput cluster data analysis. Just I don't need to use most of it for doing enterprise CRUD applications. I am speaking in general for others and the current state of the industry, I seldom failed any whiteboard exercise.