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My only beef against Dijkstra is that I applied for a fairly crappy job I was eminently qualified for in terms of experience and someone told me to code Dijkstr
by w0mbat 6y ago
My only beef against Dijkstra is that I applied for a fairly crappy job I was eminently qualified for in terms of experience and someone told me to code Dijkstra's shunting yard algorithm on a whiteboard (well not in so many words, but that was the solution). It's a good algorithm but way beyond the scope of what you should ask in a whiteboard interview. I didn't get the job.
- _Nat_ 6y agoI get the sense that Dijkstra would've agreed with you and perhaps had harsh words for that interview process. Sometimes these interview stories sound like selecting a professor of mathematics by picking the one who can calculate the square-root-of-2 to 12 digits in their head the fastest.