4 ms·
This assumes that everyone just has a huge set of canned answers memorized, versus putting together some on-the-fly combinations of some building blocks like ma
by majormajor 7y ago
This assumes that everyone just has a huge set of canned answers memorized, versus putting together some on-the-fly combinations of some building blocks like maps and different things to do with lists.
If you can memorize the whole world, that probably would be useful day to day too - I'm sure you'd see a lot of stuff you could use the shit you memorized for! - but it doesn't seem to be happening much.
- th0ma5 7y agoI think this is the most reasonable answer, and perhaps the memorization stuff is more of a measurement of who paid the most attention in the most recent of class taking... I just feel as I progress in my career and do ever more complicated things, I'm shedding more and more ready knowledge of any specifics, but perhaps making and ever more complex map of how to find what I need.
- majormajor 7y agoFor specialist roles and experience, I'd definitely interview differently. Hard to do live coding there, but if you can tell me exactly about how you've solved problems in the space, that's awesome. Most of where I've see the "how would you manipulate this array" type of stuff is generalist stuff or new-to-the-particular-subdomain candidates, where if I asked for exactly what I'm looking for them to know, they'd fail. Gotta just look for people who can learn it on the fly fast instead, and I haven't found any better proxies yet. :|