Re:How I went from failing every interview to a job at Amazon
by arvinsim on Sunday April 30, 2017 @07:12PM
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You don't need to know how to implement a parser to recognize it as a solution to a problem. And there are already libraries and tools for building parsers anyway.
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Re:How I went from failing every interview to a job at Amazon
by sanderjd on Sunday April 30, 2017 @08:23PM
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The hard part isn't building the parser, the hard part is recognizing that a parser would be a good solution to the problem and distilling the problem into a form for which the solution works. One of the main purposes of a college degree is to come out knowing a lot about what you don't know. That is, knowing a lot about what sorts of things exist, even if you don't know much detail about any of those things.