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At least it is better than getting asked questions about the O-notation of the solution you've just whiteboarded. There has to be a better way...
by Jd 15y ago
At least it is better than getting asked questions about the O-notation of the solution you've just whiteboarded. There has to be a better way...
- archangel_one 15y agoWhat's wrong with that? Big-O notation is fairly universally relevant so it seems not unreasonable to expect a programmer to be able to talk about it a little. I've seen exactly that be a strong indicator in the past - a candidate not being able to recognise that the code he'd written ran in O(n^2) was a significant negative sign.
- Jd 15y agoI'm not sure how relevant it is to the work that many web application programmers do every day, which fairly rarely involves algorithm optimization. I understand that there are lots of optimization heavy jobs out there, but I'm not really sure that it is important for many of us (esp. since there are lots of great developers out there without a Comp Sci training). To the downvoters: Do you disagree? If so please tell me why.