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strongly disagree 1. you _won't_ be happier running a fast food joint - the work is gruelling, and it's so easy to go bust. And you won't bring home six figure
by kofejnik 7y ago
strongly disagree
1. you _won't_ be happier running a fast food joint - the work is gruelling, and it's so easy to go bust. And you won't bring home six figures
2a. people who _actually_ can code are scarce, even in the tech industry. Source: conducted over 300 interviews
2b. quite logically, your coding skill will be most appreciated and compensated at a Big Tech Co, not at a government department where they will be simply unable to see the difference
- jason0597 7y ago>2a. people who _actually_ can code are scarce, even in the tech industry. Source: conducted over 300 interviews As a young person with an interest in software programming (currently studying chemical engineering but still write C code now and then), what do you look for when trying to find out people who can _actually_ code?
- HeyLaughingBoy 7y agoLiterally the ability to write working code. You'd be amazed how few interviewees can even put together a working for... loop.
- kofejnik 7y agoyes, exactly this
- andrewnc 7y agoThis absolutely blows my mind. I have a hard time even believing it. But having never conducted interviews, I just don't know.
- jason0597 7y agoI've heard this story before, but it sounds absolutely insane and I can't begin to imagine (let alone expect!) that such a thing occurs. Is it really true?
- kofejnik 7y agoa somewhat serious answer: simple things should be easy to you, and hard things possible examples of simple things: DFS/BFS walks; simple Project Euler problems; or "write a simple game in terminal, maybe with some form of minimax search" (a bit harder), or maybe a parser for simple arithmetic expressions