Re:Lessons from 3,000 technical interviews
by collyw on Thursday December 29, 2016 @04:24AM
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Some of us don't "slap together some semblance of a working CRUD system", but put a bit of thought into it in order to make a maintainable app that works as it should and is scalable when necessary. That requires plenty of knowledge, but algorithmic CS stuff isn't high on that list.
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Re:Lessons from 3,000 technical interviews
by matthewmacleod on Thursday December 29, 2016 @05:13AM
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That requires plenty of knowledge, but algorithmic CS stuff isn't high on that list.
I'm not sure I agree – in my experience there is at least a direct correlation between 'knows about scalability, performance and maintainability' and 'knows about data structures and algorithms'. Maybe they aren't going to be able to tell you about the performance edge-cases of different sorts or whatever, but I'd probably still expect to see at least awareness of a difference existing.