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I would say that if you know the answers to 100 top coding questions (and understand them, a good interviewer will poke you to determine that) then you are a pr
by d1zzy 9y ago
I would say that if you know the answers to 100 top coding questions (and understand them, a good interviewer will poke you to determine that) then you are a pretty good coder and you should be hired. Seems working as intended :)
For many tech companies where they get a lot more candidate applications than they have positions for, the goal of the interview process isn't to avoid losing good candidates, it's to not hire bad candidates.
- jaggederest 9y agoThat's like saying that if you can retype The Great Gatsby, then you're a great writer. So much more goes into software engineering than "Can solve tiny example problems in an examination system"
- d1zzy 9y agoLike I said, a good interviewer ensures you understand the solutions of those problems (the problem might even be formulated in a different form than the exact form you learned) not just typing out text verbatim. If you do understand the solutions of top 100 coding questions, I think you have a good start. Part of solving the problem in an interview will also be being able to code, so it's also testing your coding ability in a given programming language. True that software engineering is more than that, but those other things largely depend on in-house company processes, tools and policies so you would learn them afterwards.