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Re:The software industry's greatest sin: hiring by dahfizz on Thursday April 09, 2020 @11:01PM (#22829578)
No, but I get to write real code at my job.
Re:The software industry's greatest sin: hiring by smabie on Friday April 10, 2020 @12:34AM (#22830002)
They're not the same. I've never used Dijkstra pathfinding at my work, but I and yet, I seem to asked questions about it in interviews pretty consistently.
Re:The software industry's greatest sin: hiring by UncleMeat on Friday April 10, 2020 @11:03AM (#22833717)
The goal isn’t to make sure you have memorized a graph algorithm. The goal is to identity people who can convert a scoped problem definition to code and to identify people who can convert a vague problem definition to a scoped one.

This can be beaten by brute force by memorizing a huge amount of material, but that isn’t the goal. It isn’t like the interviewers think you’ll need to implement their question in your day job.