Re:What I learned about interviewing
by iKevinShah on Wednesday December 01, 2021 @09:28AM
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I was recently appearing for an interview and a fintech org did this. Wow that interview was so pleasant. I did not have to worry about forgetting where algorithm X is O(N^2) or O(2^N).
and since they asked all about my experiences and what was written, I was able to articulate more than I would in usual tech rounds.
Although we couldn't agree on location for personal reasons, that is an org which I would recommend specially as they really wanted to know the candidate's behavior and not whether he could remember some implementations which they're mostly never going to use.
> Forgetting where algorithm X is O(N^2) or O(2^N)
I find it absolutely shocking that you would consider it trivial knowledge whether an algorithm is low-degree polynomial or exponential. The pendulum is swinging way too far to the other end. If you can't remember/figure out whether the code you're writing is O(N^2) or O(2^N) you should not be writing code professionally.
After all I'm trying to find, do they have initiative? do they care? do they make informed choices? do they think by themselves?