Ask HN: Anyone having issues with job applicant fraud?

Re:Ask HN: Anyone having issues with job applicant fraud? by edgyquant on Wednesday August 31, 2022 @08:06PM (#32669999)

I was hired as the engineering lead earlier this year at a company. It was packed full of “senior” engineers who wrote nested loops, each screen was a monolithic program with no abstractions etc. as I let them go we hired two more (we have a consultant that hired me and has been interviewing them) who were the exact same. Senior engineer, 15 years experience, etc.

Yes all of them appear to work a couple hours of day and I’d wager they get 3-4 jobs and work a few hours a day on each

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Re:Ask HN: Anyone having issues with job applicant fraud? by sicp-enjoyer on Wednesday August 31, 2022 @08:13PM (#32670061)

> who wrote nested loops

What is this supposed to be the connotation here?

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Re:Ask HN: Anyone having issues with job applicant fraud? by SauciestGNU on Wednesday August 31, 2022 @09:20PM (#32670605)

This suggests runtime complexity will be O(n^2), which is rarely an optimal solution to a problem.

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Re:Ask HN: Anyone having issues with job applicant fraud? by jackblemming on Thursday September 01, 2022 @03:10AM (#32673037)

Unless they verify the source code of every library they use and verify the entire call stack; it probably has a nested for loop somewhere. Good thing computers are fast!

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Re:Ask HN: Anyone having issues with job applicant fraud? by silvertaza on Thursday September 01, 2022 @03:39AM (#32673216)

Depending on n, oftentimes nested loops are more readable and maintainable than the optimal solution.

Of course too many levels of nesting is inherently a code smell that indicates other issues.

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Re:Ask HN: Anyone having issues with job applicant fraud? by sicp-enjoyer on Thursday September 01, 2022 @10:15AM (#32676505)

Some common cases (that wouldn't be considered algorithms) are:

- working with grids (rows and columns)

- iterating over nested data structures (eg. all people in a group).

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Re:Ask HN: Anyone having issues with job applicant fraud? by comex on Thursday September 01, 2022 @02:07AM (#32672597)

Perhaps, but “nested loops” by itself is an odd way to describe that.

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Re:Ask HN: Anyone having issues with job applicant fraud? by strikelaserclaw on Thursday September 01, 2022 @08:11AM (#32675246)

that says nothing if you don't know the size of the input and the problem at hand. Sometimes the best you can do is N^2.

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Re:Ask HN: Anyone having issues with job applicant fraud? by edgyquant on Thursday September 01, 2022 @03:22PM (#32681669)

That there’s almost always a more optimal solution than a triple nested loop in a useEffect. Any senior level engineer should be architecting said optimal solutions

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