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Are you serious? For any algorithmic question, if googling does not turn up a great answer, you would need to be a genius if you could come up with one on the s
by raarts 9y ago
Are you serious? For any algorithmic question, if googling does not turn up a great answer, you would need to be a genius if you could come up with one on the spot.
- digitalsushi 9y agoWe had a CS class at UNH, a state university, where we learned how to express the complexity of an algorithm and then how to refactor algorithms to be less complex, when possible. Although we do not do this type of work for most of our jobs, it is not a stretch to think that half of people with a CS degree might have at one point known how to do this on the spot.
- raarts 9y agoSure, but I would seriously question someone's Google fu, if it came to this.
- iainmerrick 9y agoYes, that’s exactly the kind of thing companies like Google are looking for.
- sanderjd 9y agoMy job often entails reasoning through a solution to a specific problem which is dissimilar enough from the general formulation of some problem that there isn't an obvious way to Google for an exact answer. It may take a genius to devise the best algorithm to solve some general problem, but it does not take a genius to reason through a decent solution to a specific problem using general knowledge and experience.