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Re:Why I Don’t Talk to Google Recruiters by hashseed on Tuesday February 21, 2017 @04:00PM (#13699898)
But imagine Einstein having to look up how to derive x^2. I'd say that's a pretty close equivalent to knowing tree traversal in CS. It should just come naturally.
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Re:Why I Don’t Talk to Google Recruiters by coldpie on Tuesday February 21, 2017 @05:47PM (#13700888)
I've been working in the programming industry for ten years and have never had to implement tree traversal. I could probably scrape together a naive implementation in a relatively short amount of time, but it's certainly not something I've memorized. But then, I'm a programmer, not a computer scientist.
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Re:Why I Don’t Talk to Google Recruiters by enraged_camel on Tuesday February 21, 2017 @06:04PM (#13701043)
If one is a computer scientist, yes. If one is a programmer, not at all.
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