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But the 5% ~ 10% that do are at least guaranteed to be capable of it. And it's likely that that matters.
by nullsense 6y ago
But the 5% ~ 10% that do are at least guaranteed to be capable of it.
And it's likely that that matters.
- sidlls 6y agoSure, but it doesn’t matter enough that interviews should be built around this domain, especially to the extent they are around the Bay Area. Having 0.5% of all engineers regularly engaged in working with the implementation details of data structures and algorithms does not justify putting 100% of engineering candidates through interviews centered on that topic.
- scruple 6y agoCapable of it or capable of learning it when it's needed? I had to brush up on linear algebra for some problems at work about 2 years ago. I solved the problem, documented everything properly, and the code has been running unchanged and without issue ever since. In the time between then and now I've definitely lost that knowledge _yet again_.