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Have you ever passed someone who wrote brute force algorithms?
by Jaygles 5y ago
Have you ever passed someone who wrote brute force algorithms?
- angarg12 5y agoOf course. Contrary to popular belief you don't need to ace all interviews to get an offer. It's fairly common to make a hire decision with one person not inclined.
- emotional_fool 5y agoSo your assessment was "inclined no hire" when the person gave brute force solution, am I wrong?
- angarg12 5y agoMost often, but not always. To understand why here is another bit of my philosophy: the aim is to find a good match between candidate and company. The interview is a (very flawed) proxy for this, so don't overindex on it. For instance, recently I was inclined for a candidate although he didn't make it past brute force. The reason is that he did very well in the behavioural round, and wrote a very good brute force solution. Also, during coding, he explained in detail the internals of some data structures (e.g. hash maps), which shows they know their stuff. Lastly, they had an intuition about how to approach the problem optimally, even if they didn't manage to write the code.