What would a recession mean for developers?

Re:What would a recession mean for developers? by exdsq on Saturday May 28, 2022 @03:56AM (#31538458)

Some startups are still requiring weird whiteboard questions sadly. Interviewed for a role recently and was asked to navigate a maze of obstacles and teleports with possible infinite loops, saying the minimum number of steps to leave the maze if it’s possible. That was for a test engineering role so… WTF.

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Re:What would a recession mean for developers? by bigDinosaur on Saturday May 28, 2022 @04:04AM (#31538498)

I assume they wanted more than a DFS or BFS or similar with loop detection? The teleports sound like a fun twist, although I'm not sure they change that much since from a graph perspective presumably they're just another edge?

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Re:What would a recession mean for developers? by 414techie on Saturday May 28, 2022 @10:48AM (#31540757)

Yeah, but does that kind of problem really exist on a regular basis for a test engineer on that team? I doubt it.

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Re:What would a recession mean for developers? by bigDinosaur on Saturday May 28, 2022 @09:15PM (#31545313)

It's probably not that relevant to the job, but as far as weird questions go it's not too bad. It's presumably not leetcode hard, basically.

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Re:What would a recession mean for developers? by exdsq on Wednesday June 01, 2022 @04:11AM (#31579356)

Actually it was literally a hard leetcode question! The other 3 were 2 medium and 1 easy. I can work out easy and medium leetcode answers from first principles in an interview setting, usually. I can't with hard ones tbh.

But ultimately it seems very divorced from reality of what I do, which is TestOps (building out CI pipelines, reporting, test infra, etc...).

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Re:What would a recession mean for developers? by DeathArrow on Saturday May 28, 2022 @10:24AM (#31540563)

They wanted to know if you can traverse a graph, which is something pretty simple.

I don't see a need for outrage here.

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Re:What would a recession mean for developers? by exdsq on Wednesday June 01, 2022 @04:10AM (#31579344)

I'm sure it's simple if you know it! But having not taking an algorithm class before, and having completed three other Algorithm questions within the 90 min total allotted time, I crashed pretty hard. I solved it afterwards when I had time to really think, but didn't know it off the top of my head.

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Re:What would a recession mean for developers? by posed on Saturday May 28, 2022 @04:18AM (#31538572)

Simple BFS from the starting position should do the trick.

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