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It’s absolutely true, and interviews at most companies are set up like “did you take an algorithms course”, with questions like “develop a path finding algorith
by taurath 5y ago
It’s absolutely true, and interviews at most companies are set up like “did you take an algorithms course”, with questions like “develop a path finding algorithm (a*)” for web frontend work.
I am self taught and got “lucky” finding a small company paying peanuts that had a lot for me to do. I interviewed multiple people with several yoe and degrees and found they couldn’t do very simple things that anyone who’d built any frontend could have done. That was over 8 years ago now and I’ve moved on to much bigger companies and much more responsibility.
But I tell my friends nowadays you have to get very lucky to find any company that will hire you based on ability to code rather than ability to pass a theory heavy interview.
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- ummonk 5y agoThe credentials are a much bigger barrier than the interview format. You can easily self-teach the algorithms / data structures theory.
- taurath 5y agoNot that easily, especially when there are things that are rarely used in actual development that CS courses force you to memorize - it’s hard to know what is important and what is not. Code interview prep books being 400+ pages kind of show this.
- bradleyjg 5y agoYes, exactly. One of the things we had going for us as an industry is that our interviews might be BS but at least anyone had a shot. You didn’t have to go to Harvard. Now that’s ending.