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Re:What is the best part about being a Software Engineer? by lostcolony on Thursday April 28, 2016 @08:56AM (#11588425)
'Its just the algo stuff you usually have to review before hand vs all the others'

There's the problem. If it's something you have to review, it's not something you use that often. Unless the job is going to have you using it often, why is everyone's time being squandered on it?

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Re:What is the best part about being a Software Engineer? by emodendroket on Thursday April 28, 2016 @09:52AM (#11588817)
I guess the problem is you need it infrequently but when you do need it it is really helpful to know.
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Re:What is the best part about being a Software Engineer? by collyw on Thursday April 28, 2016 @01:20PM (#11590456)
And easy enough to look up.
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Re:What is the best part about being a Software Engineer? by emodendroket on Thursday April 28, 2016 @01:35PM (#11590561)
But what are you looking up? You have to know what class of problem you have to be able to look it up.
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Re:What is the best part about being a Software Engineer? by lostcolony on Friday April 29, 2016 @07:26PM (#11599390)
And if the interviewer will be satisfied with "Oh, this looks like an X kind of problem. I'd just google that and go from there", fair enough.
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Re:What is the best part about being a Software Engineer? by emodendroket on Monday May 02, 2016 @09:21AM (#11611071)
A decent interviewer is probably willing to be cooperative and fill in some details for you. I guess some places are all about trying to play "gotcha" but the hell with them.
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