Re:Why I Don’t Talk to Google Recruiters
by stcredzero on Tuesday February 21, 2017 @01:47PM
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I haven't had any algorithmic problem to solve, most programmer jobs is just making software as quickly as possible and fix performance issues only when they appear.
I sense a contradiction between the 1st clause and the last clause.
Expecting every programmer to know how to solve given problem on a whiteboard is like expecting every life gourd to know how to do a water escape
Expecting every programmer to know the basics of recursion and about 10 basic algorithms and the reasons behind their time/space complexity analyses is like expecting every life guard to know what a drowning person looks like (nothing like what they show in movies and TV shows) has the ability to tread water without using arms, and knows how to tow a panicked, struggling swimmer without letting them kick you in the stomach.
A programmer who can't explain the three bits of knowledge in my comment above is like a lifeguard who simply knows how to swim and doesn't know what a drowning person looks like. Over 90% of the time, all you have to do is sit in the tower chair and blow your whistle at troublemakers, but in the occasional instance, you will have to know something special, with a higher cost than usual if you don't know.
I sense a contradiction between the 1st clause and the last clause.
Expecting every programmer to know how to solve given problem on a whiteboard is like expecting every life gourd to know how to do a water escape
Expecting every programmer to know the basics of recursion and about 10 basic algorithms and the reasons behind their time/space complexity analyses is like expecting every life guard to know what a drowning person looks like (nothing like what they show in movies and TV shows) has the ability to tread water without using arms, and knows how to tow a panicked, struggling swimmer without letting them kick you in the stomach.
A programmer who can't explain the three bits of knowledge in my comment above is like a lifeguard who simply knows how to swim and doesn't know what a drowning person looks like. Over 90% of the time, all you have to do is sit in the tower chair and blow your whistle at troublemakers, but in the occasional instance, you will have to know something special, with a higher cost than usual if you don't know.