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Since all programming jobs deal with trees and recursion, and if you are already at Google working on another team, wouldn't it mean you already know about thos
by NhanH 7y ago
Since all programming jobs deal with trees and recursion, and if you are already at Google working on another team, wouldn't it mean you already know about those (since our assumption being all jobs deal with those)? Why not just check directly if you were actually useful instead?
- tcoff91 7y agoIt's 100% not true that all programming jobs deal with trees. I worked for years on a major audio/video/screensharing communications SaaS product and never once needed to write recursive code or use a tree structure. Not all code is for processing data. There was tons of code that had very little to do with data structures or algorithms, and much more to do with implementing network protocols, business logic, managing state, abstracting the differences between the various operating systems we had to support, etc...
- NhanH 7y agoI was just taking GP's statement and shows that it is not consistent with the rest of his argument. I don't agree that all jobs have to deal with trees either.