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I think learning to excel at algorithm interviews will make you a better engineer. It's not memorizing questions, it's learning to solve a variety of interestin
by stopachka 4y ago
I think learning to excel at algorithm interviews will make you a better engineer. It's not memorizing questions, it's learning to solve a variety of interesting problems you seldom get in your day today. You may think, if "I don't get those problems day to day, why learn to solve them?". This is similar to an airline pilot saying "Engines work well on my flights; why should I learn how to handle engine failures?"
2-3 months of devoted effort on algorithm interviews has given me some of the best ROI / time for engineering growth I've had in my career.
- ceejayoz 4y agoIt's more akin to expecting the pilot to know how to replace a wiring harness in the avionics bay; someone else handles it and they'll never need it in practice.
- Panzer04 4y agoI guess you just swear off ever doing an algorithms problem? This doesn’t seem comparable at all - there are feasible circumstances where you need to know this stuff.
- ceejayoz 4y ago> I guess you just swear off ever doing an algorithms problem? I swear off memorizing the answers to them. If I run into a problem that requires a leetcode-style solution, I'll find many available bits of information to help me solve it.