Re:What I learned from spending 3 months applying to jobs af...
by brutus1213 on Monday November 21, 2016 @05:45PM
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I am most comfy with Python but think it is the wrong language for me to do coding interviews. When I was in school, I was taught intro CS in C and Java. I got tripped by a fairly CS 101 question even though I use Python very productively and regularly at work. In C or Java, I'd be able to knock off that question easily.
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Re:What I learned from spending 3 months applying to jobs af...
by grogenaut on Tuesday November 22, 2016 @12:32AM
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As I said, it depends. If it's text heavy, python or ruby (or perl) is likely the best. If it uses a lesser known data structure, maybe java with it's massive set of libraries. If it's bit twiddling or memory intensive, then maybe c++ is the right answer. But a lot of questions are trivial in ruby or python. 3sum can be done in 2 lines of ruby (how I wish it was one, would be cooler).