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Although embedded is possibly one of the few software positions where these questions might be somewhat relevant- aside from embedded who is writing a sort by h
by zrobotics 7y ago
Although embedded is possibly one of the few software positions where these questions might be somewhat relevant- aside from embedded who is writing a sort by hand anymore; although even in embedded it isn't that common of a problem. I just find the questions especially egregious for an average software dev working on something like a web app, since in that case hand-coding something like a sorting algorithm or BST is almost always the wrong thing to do.
- scottLobster 7y agoOh I completely agree, but like it or not such questions have become the unofficial Software Engineering SAT. Part of being an engineer is working with/around other peoples' bullshit. If the furthest that extends is a dumb interview question or two, that's a dream job. :)
- emilecantin 7y agoI'm a Web developer, and I did hand-code the Dijkstra path-finding algorithm recently. Granted, it's not common, and I didn't do it from memory, but at least I knew what to Google. I needed to represent the shortest path between nodes on a map, so I needed the internal data from the algorithm, thus the need to whip out my own version.