Programmers are confessing their sins to protest a broken job interview process

Re:Programmers are confessing their sins to protest a broken... by wiredfool on Tuesday February 28, 2017 @05:27PM (#13758789)

I would say further, that If you are in a position to be implementing some non-trivial algorithm that's not currently in the toolbox, then your best approach is probably to go read a few papers first, and make sure that the algorithm you're looking at has not been surpassed. (Or, perhaps, you just need to dig something up from the '70s. A lot has been forgotten).

Then again, if you can implement Paxos on the first try...

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Re:Programmers are confessing their sins to protest a broken... by Washuu on Tuesday February 28, 2017 @05:34PM (#13758861)

The best personal analogy I can think of for myself. Six or seven years ago I was updating some legacy code coming across an unsalted MD5 hash being used, "Huh, I thought MD5 was becoming obsolete." I did my research to confirm and also to determine what would be the best hashing algorithm to move forward with.

Of course that is not exactly the same as some other problems presented by white board coding.

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Re:Programmers are confessing their sins to protest a broken... by ourmandave on Tuesday February 28, 2017 @05:43PM (#13758939)

I just googled Paxos and I still can't implement it. =(

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Re:Programmers are confessing their sins to protest a broken... by Joof on Tuesday February 28, 2017 @07:38PM (#13759809)

Try raft. It's the easy version that works most of the time.

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Re:Programmers are confessing their sins to protest a broken... by tostitos1979 on Tuesday February 28, 2017 @09:29PM (#13760434)

Meh .. I think Paxos is easier than raft. A lot of Raft's complexity is in leader election, getting rid of old leaders, etc. Sad that I have failed Google's whiteboard interview soooo many times that I don't bother returning messages from their recruiters.

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