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Re:“I've had to relearn coding to get through the new interv... by blobbers on Friday December 04, 2020 @03:06AM (#25300133)
I don't think it's a strong sign of complacency. I think people just don't do toy problems involve coding breadth first searches or determining bipartite graphs. How often to people really write dynamic programming algos in 45 minutes. They don't - they think and tinker.

Algorithms can be beautiful to code but most of the time is not spent on this sort of thing. It's fixing null pointer exceptions or parsing json requests or whatever javascript front end engineers do.

You definitely have to prepare.

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Re:“I've had to relearn coding to get through the new interv... by ganafagol on Friday December 04, 2020 @04:43AM (#25300619)
Please. Neither the original article nor my comment where about interviews asking to implement a breadth first search. That's a different topic.

This was about him having to learn C# since it wasn't really around 20 years ago. And having to polish up Python cause it was very different 20 years ago. And other programming practices. You definitely need to stay up to date on the stuff that's relevant to your job. Not because of interviews, but because .. it's your job. If you prepare for an interview and notice that's what's holding you back, then you definitely started to grow complaceny in your job. And maybe your environment made you become that way, then it's not a good environment.

If you are up to date on this, then writing a BFS from scratch or debugging a null pointer issue or even json will be a piece of cake. Interview questions are an excuse to have a technical conversation, not to see if you remember some algo from school.

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Re:“I've had to relearn coding to get through the new interv... by pseudalopex on Friday December 04, 2020 @12:49PM (#25305428)
The article had 2 short sentences about C# and Python and several paragraphs about HackerRank and LeetCode.
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