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Re:Tech sector job interviews assess anxiety, not software s... by oriolid on Wednesday November 10, 2021 @03:28PM (#29180256)
I think the idea of the algorithm interview is to see if you were awake in class while getting the degree and whether you can think on your feet. For other classes it's more difficult to come up with questions that aim for the same.
Re:Tech sector job interviews assess anxiety, not software s... by jolux on Wednesday November 10, 2021 @03:55PM (#29180629)
What algorithms courses are we even talking about? I dropped out after sophomore year but I still took data structures and algorithms, and a lot of the stuff I see people mention getting quizzed on at Google (I saw convex hulls in another thread on here) is 400-level, elective courses in these topics. The last object we studied in DS&A was graphs and graph algorithms, which I can handle just fine.
Re:Tech sector job interviews assess anxiety, not software s... by oriolid on Thursday November 11, 2021 @02:05PM (#29191731)
The ones you take before dropping out and starting a job, obviously.
Re:Tech sector job interviews assess anxiety, not software s... by jolux on Friday November 12, 2021 @08:54AM (#29199247)
Can’t tell if you’re being facetious or not but my point was that not even every CS major would have taken this course (and learned about these structures) by the time they had finished, so it doesn’t quite seem reasonable to expect it as core knowledge for CS graduates, unless you want to select for graduating from a particular school.