Re:Guido van Rossum joins Microsoft
by vanusa on Saturday November 14, 2020 @03:10PM
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Wow, the replies to this actually saying Guido van Rossum should do an algorithm/DS leetcode interview.
It'd actually be really, really cool if more than few people of Guido/Linus/etc's calibre did go in for some of the whiteboarding interviews (under an anonymous resume of course).
As both of them explicitly acknowledge - they don't (or no longer) consider themselves as top notch "coders" as such. Linus has said something like "I'm not even a programmer anymore" recently. And Guido said something like "I'm not the best Python coder by far - on a scale of 1-10 I'd say I'm at most a 6". Not because they're lousy coders of course. Just that (in recent years) they've had far, far, far bigger fish to fry.
So they go in, and "fail" the contrived Sudoku / Knapsack / "build me an Instagram clone, please" problem... then get strung along and gaslit for a while, before receiving an email 6 weeks later tell them that they're "not a fit".
It'd actually be really, really cool if more than few people of Guido/Linus/etc's calibre did go in for some of the whiteboarding interviews (under an anonymous resume of course).
As both of them explicitly acknowledge - they don't (or no longer) consider themselves as top notch "coders" as such. Linus has said something like "I'm not even a programmer anymore" recently. And Guido said something like "I'm not the best Python coder by far - on a scale of 1-10 I'd say I'm at most a 6". Not because they're lousy coders of course. Just that (in recent years) they've had far, far, far bigger fish to fry.
So they go in, and "fail" the contrived Sudoku / Knapsack / "build me an Instagram clone, please" problem... then get strung along and gaslit for a while, before receiving an email 6 weeks later tell them that they're "not a fit".
That would be lots, and lots of fun to see.