Re:How I Embarrassed Myself in My Interview With Google
by bsaul on Saturday October 19, 2013 @02:15PM
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I don't think anyone could succeed in a coding test without rehearsing before taking it, just like any kind of live performance.
Programming languages are powerful things with which you can do a lot of very different things and tackle very different issues. Sometimes it's database querying, sometimes complex data structures, sometimes parallelism, genericity, business data modeling, etc. etc.
There should be a list of "warm up" exercises somewhere to help people prepare for general tests and make sure they've touched at least every subject once before going live.
Programming languages are powerful things with which you can do a lot of very different things and tackle very different issues. Sometimes it's database querying, sometimes complex data structures, sometimes parallelism, genericity, business data modeling, etc. etc.
There should be a list of "warm up" exercises somewhere to help people prepare for general tests and make sure they've touched at least every subject once before going live.