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Walter you (with your credentials) do realize you would never go through the "standard" interview loop like the rest of us nobodies would go through right? We
by flashgordon 5y ago
Walter you (with your credentials) do realize you would never go through the "standard" interview loop like the rest of us nobodies would go through right? We are lucky to be forgiven for only solving 2 LC hard problems instead of 3+ in an hour whiteboard coding interview!
- WalterBright 5y agoI didn't have any credentials at the time, which is why I felt the need to be proactive in the job interview. I also interviewed at Microsoft (just down the street) a few years later, and got the standard interview treatment. I know what quicksort is, and I've implemented it more than once over the years. But I could not implement it off the top of my head at the moment without doing a quick refresher on the algorithm. I was once assigned the task of speeding up a program written by <famous programmer you've heard of>. In perusing the code I happened to notice that there were two custom bubblesorts buried in it. I replaced them both with calls to C's qsort and got a nice boost. Was <famous programmer you've heard of> a fraud? Not at all. Anybody's code can be made better. I've been found guilty of having hidden quadratic code many times.