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Well, sure. We're not talking sophisticated things here though. The exercises that I've formed this opinion from were closer to fizz-buzz than to data structur
by nolemurs 9y ago
Well, sure.
We're not talking sophisticated things here though. The exercises that I've formed this opinion from were closer to fizz-buzz than to data structures or algorithms questions.
If it takes you 20 minutes to code something about as hard as fizz-buzz (on a computer, with internet access), and the code you have at the end is terrible, I feel pretty confident saying you're not an effective engineer.
- linkregister 9y agoYet the Google and Facebook interview questions are decidedly not trivial fizzbuzz problems. They're more on the order of the second midterm of a 300-level algorithms class. This is not stuff that most 10-year engineers have in their heads. I'm not commenting on your company's interview process; I'm merely affirming the earlier poster's claim that there is a serious issue with the Google interview process and its cargo-cult-followed successors (Facebook, et. al.).