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My objection is maintaining an entirely unrelated skillset that I have never encounter in my day to day work. It is a skill that you will lose if you spend a y
by MattGaiser 5y ago
My objection is maintaining an entirely unrelated skillset that I have never encounter in my day to day work.
It is a skill that you will lose if you spend a year without interviewing/leetcode practicing.
Sure I’ll do it, but you may as well test me on painting famous oil artwork from memory too.
> I don't understand why people prefer "here take home questions/work for 5 hours for free" over DS&A interview.
The alternative is hundreds of hours of speculative investment memorizing books/websites of algos. People will take full time courses on passing these interviews.
- convolvatron 5y agoimagine if you were actually an oil painter...you pass the interview with flying colors and show up to work and there is nary a brush in sight
- Smoosh 5y ago"Your job in the team will be to apply the gesso to the raw canvas".
- kitsunesoba 5y agoYes, well said. If these skills maintained themselves after being learned through day to day, I wouldn’t mind interviews centered around them. But they don’t, and probably won’t unless I shift to much lower level work, so it’s a ton of extra work and stress for the sake of being able to pass an interview.
- tharne 5y ago> My objection is maintaining an entirely unrelated skillset that I have never encounter in my day to day work. This is precisely my objection. Time is the one thing you can't make more of, so to have companies force you to learn and maintain a skillset that's completely irrelevant to doing real work is incredibly demoralizing.
- mrkentutbabi 5y agoBut I do get to implement these in some my day to day work. Not everyday of course, but every other month there are some problems that I used my DSA knowledge to solve. Graph problems are pretty common, even in frontend stuff. Often times I have to write my own library.