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Few of these types of questions ask anything beyond the first year of a decent CS curriculum. If interviewers wanted to limit themselves to CS students, they wo
by overgryphon 15y ago
Few of these types of questions ask anything beyond the first year of a decent CS curriculum. If interviewers wanted to limit themselves to CS students, they would ask about virtual memory and require candidates to write proofs of algorithms concepts on the whiteboard.
- tikhonj 15y agoI certainly agree that writing proofs and algorithm concepts is a heavy bias towards CS grads. The issue there isn't so much with the concepts involved with the particular problem as with the structure of a proof and the approach to those problems in general. Once you've learned about induction formally, it's much easier to use it in a proof, even if you can understand what it is anyhow. On the other hand, I'm not sure virtual memory is such a concept. I'm under the impression that virtual memory is a topic tons of people are talking about and that it's hard to get away from it even if you're a programmer without a CS degree. Of course, this could just be the result of my being a Linux enthusiast.