Re:Coding Problems from Programming Job Interviews
by meheleventyone on Friday January 25, 2019 @02:59PM
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I think most highly intelligent people can learn concepts that are part of undergrad degrees pretty easily. Let's face it plenty of regular people don't have much issue either. Especially if this lack of minutae was combined with a CV that got them into the interview room for a role that required it in the first place. Gaps in knowledge are about the easiest to fix.
That's fine, but understand that they often would not be a fit. If the position is low level systems programming for example, not knowing the term "bubble sort" indicates that they will have troubles in getting up to speed in a modern, complex environment, even if they are very smart. Same if the position is e.g. to work on a database, i.e. its actual implementation.
Solid knowledge of both abstract and specific aspects of computer science and engineering are prerequisites for a lot of programming jobs, especially where you work on things that consist of the environment itself, instead of the applications that run on it (though this is sometimes true for those, too).