Getting a job at Apple without going to college or doing LeetCode

Re:Getting a job at Apple without going to college or doing ... by circuit on Thursday August 17, 2023 @02:55PM (#37166333)

You do know we hire people who have to _write_ these libraries, and they can't just defer to something else with no consideration to time or space constraints. None of the questions are designed to be brainteasers or 'gotchas' but to get you to start discussing the problem and show your depth of knowledge/expertise.

If I ask you a question along the lines of "write me a function to tell if two number ranges intersect" and your solution is to grab a library instead of writing a simple predicate...then perhaps the role is not a good fit.

"Use a library for everything" is how we ended up with left-pad on npm.

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Re:Getting a job at Apple without going to college or doing ... by KaiserPro on Friday August 18, 2023 @01:52PM (#37179499)

> "Use a library for everything" is how we ended up with left-pad on npm.

bollocks, that's because javascript doesn't have a standard lib.

> You do know we hire people who have to _write_ these libraries

I know, because I'm there. I'm working in VR/AR. We have a number of people who are world experts for doing what they are doing. Do I go off and re-make a SLAM library because I don't like the layout? no because I have to ship something useable in a normal time frame. I can't just drop 3 months replicating someone else's work because I think the layout is a bit shit, or I can't be bothered to read the docs (I mean obviously there are no docs, but thats a different problem)

But, and I cannot stress this enough, having more than one person making similar or related libraries is a disaster. Nothing gets shipped and everything is devoted to "improving" the competing libraries.

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