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> Coding interviews are the easiest interviews. For you. I am a bit over a year into my eng career and coding interviews are far harder than any other type of
by AlwaysRock 5y ago
> Coding interviews are the easiest interviews.
For you. I am a bit over a year into my eng career and coding interviews are far harder than any other type of interview for me. I have a handful of stock behavioral question answers that I can adjust for most non technical interviews. I do minimal prep before hand looking up who I am interviewing with to have a few questions for them and try to find a way to relate to them during the interview.
That is much easier than someone asking me anything from fizz buzz to red black trees.
- jonathankoren 5y agoNo one asks anyone to implement a red-black tree. There are too many special cases. Just know it exists and what problem it’s trying to solve. Fizz buzz is a hello world problem. That’s why it exists.
- AlwaysRock 5y agoI'm giving examples of the range of questions that exist. I've been given Fizz Buzz in a real coding interview. I'm sure someone has been asked to implement a red-black tree before. Replace red-black tree implementation with some other silly overly complex question that isnt related to the actual job.
- jonathankoren 5y agoThey might ask you to implement sqrt(), but the question being asked isn’t “Can this person implement square root using Newton’s Method?”, it’s “How does this person tackle a problem without an obvious solution?”