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I ran interviews at my last job. Most candidates struggled with basic algos like: write a function to check if a string is a palindrome. I can't imagine a cand
by ericmcer 4y ago
I ran interviews at my last job. Most candidates struggled with basic algos like: write a function to check if a string is a palindrome.
I can't imagine a candidate being:
A. Someone who can solve engineering problems we can't with no context in under an hour.
B. Someone we don't want to make an offer too.
- mikelovenotwar 4y ago> A. Someone who can solve engineering problems we can't with no context in under an hour. Not all employers have dedicated IT teams, behaviour such as this fixes a problem without having to pay for it, while giving false hope to interviewees.
- skeeter2020 4y ago>> write a function to check if a string is a palindrome. outside of an intern or junior these types of questions are such garbage. Do your teams write a lot of trivial, isolated functions in the day to day?
- ericmcer 4y agoI agree for questions that are impossible if you didn’t memorize the specific algorithm that solves them. This question and the others I tried to ask usually have a ton of possible solutions and someone who knows how to code or can at least talk with me about coding can come up with one.
- 0x0000000 4y agoIt's a smoke test, there are a lot of fakers out there. Everyone should be able to write a function to check if a string is a palindrome, regardless of the role not necessarily involving writing trivial isolated functions.
- hooverd 4y agoNo, but it should be easy.