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by valicord 2y ago
The context of this thread is a very basic question that any good programmer should be able to bang out in 15 minutes. It's much closer to something you "should have some experience with" than "implementation details of
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by valicord 2y ago
In this scenario, should everyone born in the same city as you be punished for your crimes?
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by valicord 2y ago
You don't seriously expect me to argue your position for you, do you? If you want to convince someone that such a law would be beneficial, feel free to stop sealioning and start making actual arguments.
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by valicord 2y ago
Yeah, right, because real life is full of examples of laws with no loopholes...
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by valicord 2y ago
> why are we not testing for that iceberg, instead just scratching the surface Typical interview loop includes more than 1 question. > how many times does a great engineer need to prove that they understand fundamentals? This is a log
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by valicord 2y ago
Do those majority of software engineer jobs never need to traverse a directory or process a complicated multi-layered JSON object?
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by valicord 2y ago
This is a strawman. Implementation details of a specific language library are not "fundamental CS concepts", unlike the specific topics I was talking about. If you're hiring a C++ expert, then yes, not knowing the difference
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by valicord 2y ago
Most likely find some loophole that lets them keep more or less the same process but doesn't quite reach the legal criteria that require it to be paid.
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by valicord 2y ago
So one could just go to a different interview every day and get paid for not working?
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by valicord 2y ago
What about the pressure of a launch deadline or a system outage?
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by valicord 2y ago
Does the role you're hiring for require knowledge of recursion?
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by valicord 2y ago
Graphs and recursion are fundamental CS concepts, a candidate that doesn't understand them would be a pretty bad fit for a lot of software engineering jobs.
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by valicord 2y ago
Are you imagining a scenario where the interviewer writes "invert a binary tree" on the whiteboard, refuses to elaborate and leaves the room for half an hour? In real life they would either give you an example so you can better un
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by valicord 2y ago
what is "the trick" for inverting a binary tree?
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by valicord 2y ago
> As for that major point though, would you rather see a solution that does not scale to N results? Like, now it can give the top 3 paths but also the top N, whereas a faster solution that keeps a separate variable for the top entry cann
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by valicord 2y ago
I'd assume that the purpose of a simple question like that is to test basic programming skills (can you write a loop?). Testing knowledge of a specific math concept is doesn't really fit into this goal, so you're unlikely to
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by valicord 2y ago
At a glance it seems correct, but there's a lot of inefficiencies, which might or might not be acceptable depending on the interview level/role. Major: 1. Sorting finishedPaths is unnecessary given it only asks for the most freque
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by valicord 2y ago
> I wouldn't know how to do fibonacci sequence because I don't know its definition You know you can ask the interviewer about this, right?
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by valicord 2y ago
Then don't ask this question if it's not relevant for your position? Presumably those who would ask it don't want to hire engineers that have never heard of recursion. It's a basic level CS concept, not rocket science.
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by valicord 2y ago
Do you really need a $600 device for this?
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by valicord 2y ago
How would it help with use-after-free?
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by valicord 2y ago
"Every time I see a new action game, I immediately use cheats to godmode and noclip to the final boss so in a way all games end up with the same gameplay".
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by valicord 2y ago
People said the same thing a few years back during the cryptocurrency bubble...
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by valicord 2y ago
You're comparing "expensive custom solution" with "free off-the-shelf solution" when in reality it's "expensive custom solution" vs "expensive off-the-shelf solution". Source control at Goog
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by valicord 2y ago
What makes you think that a multirepo system would be cheaper to maintain than a monorepo? It's just moving complexity from one place (source control software) to another (everything that interacts with the source control software). TA
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by valicord 2y ago
> what is the ROI of building and maintaining their own solution versus biting the bullet and pivoting so they can use pre-existing products? Using made-up numbers, if you have 50000 employees using source control at your company and a c
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by valicord 2y ago
I guess we should repeal the Americans with Disabilities Act then?
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by valicord 2y ago
Where can I find the red button that shuts down all Microsoft data centers, all Amazon datacenters, all Yandex datacenters and all Baidu datacenters at the same time? Oh, there isn't one? Sorry, your superintelligence is in another cas
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by valicord 2y ago
> offer no warranty or support in many European countries in which they sell them Do you mean that you can buy it from the manufacturer website and have it shipped directly to a country where it's not released officially? Or are you
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by valicord 2y ago
>the presubmit can stack the changes into two commits That seems like way more complexity than just doing it once and for all. Now the commit log is littered by a bunch of automatic commits that format one file at a time.

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