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"As he says himself, Homebrew is a successful product but not necessarily great computer science. He 'failed' a computer science question. " Maybe Google is di
by collyw 9y ago
"As he says himself, Homebrew is a successful product but not necessarily great computer science. He 'failed' a computer science question. "
Maybe Google is different but I usually need to do computer cine type stuff about one a year.I have used recursion on maybe 4 different occasions in my carreer, but that's the sort of thing that comes up regularly in coding tests. Why not test for things that are actually being used on the job?
- onion2k 9y agoSome Google engineers work on the sort of problems, and at the sort of scale, where algorithms and the science that drives them actually makes a difference. I don't think it's unreasonable for Google to ask computer science questions in interviews where that's the case.
- FLUX-YOU 9y agoSome do, but instead of allocating you to a correct position for your skills based on your performance in the interview, you just get outright rejected, which means you have to try again and again until you find a position which happens to give an interview which you can pass.
- kod 9y agoSo you've only used json, or html, or (insert recursive data structure here) 4 times in your career? Seriously, recursion is everywhere.
- pennaMan 9y agoAm I flexing my electrical engineering skills when I turn the TV on with a remote control? Parsing a json tree uses recursion under the hood but unless you are writing a new json parsing library each month you won't get the chance to use those recursion skills too often when dealing with json in day to day code.
- Delmania 9y agoYes, that's true. But how many times when they need to solve those problems are they placed in front of a whiteboard in a fairly high pressure situation? Wouldn't they rather have a chance to collaborate, think, research, and test?