Re:Why I Don’t Talk to Google Recruiters
by stcredzero on Tuesday February 21, 2017 @05:21PM
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Knowing the typical time and space complexity for an algorithm (without even understanding one bit about the implementation details) in a given category might be considered too trivial to be even basic, but I submit it's about the most "advanced" piece of knowledge for what a typical engineer really must know to write good, high quality and performant enough code.
I think we're both saying that it's generally a good level of 1st Principles knowledge for programmers to have.
Re:Why I Don’t Talk to Google Recruiters
by sidlls on Tuesday February 21, 2017 @05:28PM
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"Good" and "necessary" are different things, though. I consider it "good" to know as much as possible about things I'm interested in. I don't consider it "necessary."
I think we're both saying that it's generally a good level of 1st Principles knowledge for programmers to have.