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I was already writing it when I did this interview! (Though, I hadn't gotten to the chapter on data locality yet.) One of the main reasons I started writing it
by munificent 5y ago
I was already writing it when I did this interview! (Though, I hadn't gotten to the chapter on data locality yet.)
One of the main reasons I started writing it was to help my job search. Which, ironically, ended up not being necessary because I left the game industry. What's crazy to think about is that if I hadn't failed this interview, I probably wouldn't have gone to Google.
So this one weird failure to explain the big-O of dynamic arrays may have dramatically changed the course of my career. Or, who knows, maybe they failed me for other reasons.
- wly_cdgr 5y agoWell, all's well that ends well. Failing that interview just might have made you a couple million dollars richer. With all due lip service to all the other advantages of working on hard problems at Google, of course :) Funnily enough, I am trying to go the other way over the next decade or so, ...so looking forward to reading your book, heh