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> The recruiter tells you months before the interview and they (Google) even send you a list of what books and papers to read before you consider yourself ready
by discardorama 11y ago
> The recruiter tells you months before the interview and they (Google) even send you a list of what books and papers to read before you consider yourself ready.
Right, because I have nothing better do in those months than to rehash CS 101 and waste my time inverting trees and reversing strings.
- sriram_sun 11y agoNobody is telling you to spend all your free time on CS101 for months. It shouldn't take months. Go back, pick up an OS textbook and read a few pages without all that academic pressure. I bet you'll appreciate the writing a little more.
- kamaal 11y agoYou totally missed the point, may be this makes sense for a few people. But a whole majority of people don't find it a very good use of their time to gain knowledge just for its own sake. If I were writing a OS, I would bury myself in all the OS books in the world, and work atrocious hours to build one. But if you are asking me to do it, because I have to face an hour of interview 6 months from now, I find this a pointless exercise.