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I mean, it wouldn't hurt to know how to do all of this, plus all the data structures & algorithms stuff, plus all major and minor details about your language an
by vsareto 6y ago
I mean, it wouldn't hurt to know how to do all of this, plus all the data structures & algorithms stuff, plus all major and minor details about your language and environment of choice, plus anything else that someone deems important, but realistically most of us need a job before you can learn all of that. Even if you do learn it all, people tend to lose knowledge they don't use, so it may have an expiration date depending on how good your brain is. New technologies and advancements can also introduce more knowledge that becomes required to know for interviews. The pool of knowledge for interview questions might continue to grow until you'd have to study for a year or more to have a high chance of passing it.
- nayuki 6y agoDSA = data structures & algorithms
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- klmr 6y ago> but realistically most of us need a job before you can learn all of that The interview was for a senior position. > Even if you do learn it all, people tend to lose knowledge they don't use Let me emphasise that my interview was not a knowledge test (and at any rate I don’t study for interviews). I wasn’t expected to know by heart how to implement popcount. The interviewer was trying to see me work. Successfully, I might add. — Another question I got concerned something I had no knowledge of, and I had to derive a solution myself. In fact, I failed to do so, but that didn’t prevent me from getting the job since the interviewer was satisfied with what they observed about my thought process.