Stanford CS9: Problem-Solving for the CS Technical Interview

Re:Stanford CS9: Problem-Solving for the CS Technical Interview by philwelch on Monday January 15, 2018 @01:49PM (#16152485)

That’s probably because you can’t write a production-ready service or application from scratch over the course of an interview.

A violinist might be asked to play a technically difficult but short piece during an audition, even when most of the music they would play as a member of the orchestra would be less challenging and take a much longer time to play, with plenty of time for rehearsing ahead of time. Likewise, a software engineer is ideally asked to solve a small but technically challenging problem during the interview.

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Re:Stanford CS9: Problem-Solving for the CS Technical Interview by jnbiche on Tuesday January 16, 2018 @08:46AM (#16158074)

> A violinist might be asked to play a technically difficult but short piece during an audition,

No. Compared to what we do as software developers, the correct analogy for a violinist interview would be to ask them to whiteboard all kinds of obscure music theory principles, like the set theory underlying serialism and Arnold Schoenberg's twelve-tone technique.

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Re:Stanford CS9: Problem-Solving for the CS Technical Interview by philwelch on Tuesday January 16, 2018 @02:50PM (#16161650)

Thanks, I’ll be sure and consult with you on whether my opinions are “correct” in the future.

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