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The point is why people have to remember them ? Why not look them up when necessary ?
by RockmanX 8y ago
The point is why people have to remember them ?
Why not look them up when necessary ?
- fjsolwmv 8y agoWhy test for anything in an interview? Why not assume anyone can learn everything on the job?
- leshow 8y agoWhy even have the interview? Why not just hire everyone who applies and assume they can do the job? There are tests and interviews because not everyone can
- jnordwick 8y agoAnd if your teams algo and data structure knowledge isn't at the level where you know about these solutions or their applicability? I have a checklist of possible interview topics and I think I might an esoteric data structure part to it (knowledge not code) and some implementation choice questions - given this situation and data, with these queries what would your data structures look like. Maybe also a few quotations on the last paper they've read in CS or related topic.
- svat 8y agoHow will you look it up when necessary during a programming contest (like the IOI/ICPC mentioned in the book)? It's usually not allowed by the contest rules to look up an entire book's worth.
- maxerickson 8y agoI guess most of the problems are relatively small, but for Advent of Code¹, the "competitive" people are finishing most of their solutions in a minute or two. 1. http://adventofcode.com/ http://adventofcode.com/