Ask HN: Is the market bad, or am I having the worst luck job hunting?

Re:Ask HN: Is the market bad, or am I having the worst luck ... by fnimick on Friday July 28, 2023 @10:50AM (#36907612)

I got explicitly failed from a first round interview because I took too long to solve a graph traversal problem. I reasoned my way through and got to the optimal solution, the interviewer confirmed that it was the optimal solution, then said I "should have recognized a variant of Dijkstra's algorithm" and that I had failed for not knowing it in advance.

Personally, I think developing it from scratch shows more promise than memory, but a lot of employers are looking for the inverse right now, IME.

edit: and this was not a FAANG, this was a startup with a single digit number of employees!

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Re:Ask HN: Is the market bad, or am I having the worst luck ... by neon_electro on Friday July 28, 2023 @11:07AM (#36907871)

Did that experience actually reflect what you'd be doing on the job, or was it just another bullshit interview experience?

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Re:Ask HN: Is the market bad, or am I having the worst luck ... by fnimick on Friday July 28, 2023 @11:26AM (#36908269)

Absolutely no relevance. And even if there was, I'd like to see a business where having to take an extra fifteen minutes to reference an algorithm textbook is the difference between success and going under.

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